#send (i hend, o send, construct sen) _(probably a term only used by the Noldor, borrowed from Quenya Sinda)_, pl. sind (i sind), coll. pl. Sendrim (the only attested form) = Quenya Sindar. As coll. pl. also Thindrim (VT41:9). The Sindar could also be called Eluwaith (e.g. _Elu-_people, the subjects of Elu Thingol: Elu + gwaith); this word was maybe only used in the First Age when Thingol was alive. The Sindar called themselves ELVES; see under FORSAKEN.
Sindarin
thindrim
collective name. Sindar
Cognates
- Q. Sinda “Grey-elf” ✧ VT41/09
Elements
Word Gloss thind “grey, grey, [N.] pale” -rim “collective or group plural”
send
sinda
send
sinda
(i hend, o send, construct sen) (probably a term only used by the Noldor, borrowed from Quenya Sinda), pl. sind (i sind), coll. pl. Sendrim (the only attested form) = Quenya Sindar. As coll. pl. also Thindrim (VT41:9). The Sindar could also be called Eluwaith (e.g. Elu-people, the subjects of Elu Thingol: Elu + gwaith); this word was maybe only used in the First Age when Thingol was alive. The Sindar called themselves
mithrim
place name. Sindar
A lake in northwest Beleriand (S/106) named after the Elves who lived there (WJ/378). This name was the inspiration for Q. Sindar (PE17/140), and is a combination of mith “grey” and the class-plural suffix -rim (SA/mith, rim).
Conceptual Development: In the earliest Lost Tales, this lake was called G. Asgon (L1T1/238, GL/20), revised to ᴱN. Mithrim towards the end of the tales (LT2/202). The form N. Mithrim appeared in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (SM/4, LR/249), and also in The Etymologies, but with its first element being N. mith “white fog, wet mist” and its second element N. rhim “cold pool or lake (in mountains)”, hence “✱Mist Lake” (Ety/MITH, RINGI). The derivation from the name of the people came later (WJ/378), perhaps inspired in the real world by Q. Sindar, the reverse of the inspiration in the fictional world.
Element in
- S. Mithrimin
Elements
Word Gloss mith “grey, light grey, pale grey” -rim “collective or group plural”
mîth
noun. *Sinda, Grey-Elf
Derivations
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶mītha > mîth [mītha] > [mīth] ✧ PE17/140 Variations
- mîth ✧ PE17/140
- maeth ✧ PE17/140
- mith ✧ PE17/140
- maiþ ✧ PE17/140 (
maiþ)- mĭth ✧ PE17/140 (
mĭth)
thend
noun. *Sinda, Grey-Elf
Changes
thind→ thend ✧ PE17/140thinið→ thineð ✧ PE17/141Cognates
- Q. Sinda “Grey-elf” ✧ PE17/141; PE17/140; PE17/141
Derivations
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶thindā > thenn [tʰindā] > [tʰinda] > [θinda] > [θenda] > [θend] > [θenn] ✧ PE17/141 ✶thinida > thineð [tʰinida] > [θinida] > [θineda] > [θineða] > [θineð] ✧ PE17/141 Variations
- thend ✧ PE17/140; PE17/141 (thend)
- thind ✧ PE17/140 (
thind)- Thinn(d) ✧ PE17/140
- thenn ✧ PE17/141
- Thind ✧ PE17/141
- thineð ✧ PE17/141
- thinið ✧ PE17/141 (
thinið)
A Sindarin equivalent of Q. Sindar (VT41/9), a combination of thind “grey” and the class-plural suffix -rim.