valariande

place name. Beleriand

Cognates

• N. Beleriand ✧ LR/202

Element in

• ᴹQ. masse lante Veleriande, masse láta sí? “where did Beleriand lie, where lies it now?” ✧ PE22/126
• ᴹQ. Nyarna Valarianden “Annals of Beleriand” ✧ LR/202

Variations

• Veleriande ✧ PE22/126

noldórien

place name. Beleriand

Another name for Beleriand appearing in early Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (SM/174), a compound of the plural of Noldo and the suffix -ien “land” (Ety/ÑGOLOD).

Conceptual Development: A similar, rejected name ᴱQ. Noldórinan appeared in the list of names that Tolkien considered before adopting Beleriand (LB/160).

Elements

Word	Gloss
Noldo	“one of the wise folk, Gnome”
-ien	“-land”