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Early Quenya

tirion

noun. (great or mighty) tower; city on a hill

Cognates

  • G. tirin “watch-tower, turret, tower”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√TIÐI “‽stick up” ✧ LT1A/Kortirion; QL/093

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√TIŘI > tirion[tiðiond] > [tiziond] > [tiriond] > [tirion]✧ QL/093

Variations

  • Tirion ✧ LT1I/Tirion; LT2/291
  • tiri(o)n ✧ PME/093
Early Quenya [LT1/025; LT1A/Kortirion; LT1I/Tirion; LT2/291; PME/093; QL/093] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tirin

place name. Tower

Name of Ingil’s tower in the earliest Lost Tales (LT2/5), it is simply tirin “tower” used as a name (LT1A/Kortirion).

Early Quenya [LT2A/Tirin; LT2I/Tirin] Group: Eldamo. Published by