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Vána

beautiful (one)

Vána fem. name, a Valië, the wife of Oromë (Silm, WJ:383); the Etymologies gives Vana with no long vowel (BAN). The apparent meaning is *"beautiful (one)", since she was "the most perfectly beautiful in form and feature…representing the natural unmarred perfection of form in living things" (PE17:150).

vána

feminine name. Ever-young, *(lit.) Beauty

Valië of Spring and Happiness, spouse of Oromë, also called the “Ever-young” (S/29). Her name is a derivative of either √BAN “beauty” (PE17/150) or √WAN “fair” (WJ/383). She is the most perfectly beautiful being in form and feature, in the sense that she lacked any fault or blemish (PE17/150).

Conceptual Development: Her name was ᴱQ. Vána in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/67), and this name appeared in the Qenya Lexicon as a derivative of the root ᴱ√VANA along with other words having to do with “beauty” (QL/99). In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, ᴹQ. Vana appeared with a short a (SM/79, LR/206), and it also appeared this way in The Etymologies as a derivative of √BAN, which was also the basis for words meaning “beautiful” (Ety/BAN).

The long á was restored in Silmarillion revisions from the 1950s-60s (MR/146). The derivation from the root √WAN did not appear until the Quendi and Eldar essay from 1959-60.

Derivations

  • BAN “beauty (due to lack of fault or blemish); fair, beautiful” ✧ PE17/149; PE17/150
  • (G)WAN “pale, fair” ✧ WJ/383

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ɃAN > Vána[bāna] > [βāna] > [vāna]✧ PE17/149
BAN > Vána[bāna] > [βāna] > [vāna]✧ PE17/150
WAN > Vána[wāna] > [βāna] > [vāna]✧ WJ/383

Variations

  • Vana ✧ MRI/Vána
Quenya [MRI/Vána; PE17/149; PE17/150; S/029; SI/Vána; SMI/Vana; WJ/383; WJI/Vána] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tuilë

noun. spring, spring, [ᴹQ.] spring-time, [ᴱQ.] (lit.) a budding; buds, new shoots, fresh green

Cognates

  • S. ethuil “spring, spring [the season]” ✧ LotR/1107
  • S. tuil “spring”
  • Van. twílë “spring” ✧ PE19/107

Derivations

  • TUY “sprout, bud” ✧ VT39/07

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
TUJU > tuile[tuile]✧ VT39/07

Variations

  • tuile ✧ PE19/107; VT39/07
Quenya [LotR/1107; LotR/1111; PE19/107; UT/327; UTI/tuilë; VT39/07] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tuilë

spring, spring-time

tuilë noun "spring, spring-time", also used = "dayspring, early morn" (VT39:7, TUY), in the calendar of Imladris a precisely defined period of 54 days, but also used without any exact definition. Cf. tuilérë, q.v. (Appendix D) - In early "Qenya", the word tuilë is glossed "Spring", but it is said that it literally refers to a "budding", also used collectively for "buds, new shoots, fresh green" (LT1:269). Cf. tuima in Tolkien's later Quenya.