Qenya
tinwetári
feminine name. Queen of Stars
Changes
Tinwetar→ Tintanie “star-queen” ✧ Ety/TINElements
Word Gloss tinwe “spark (star)” tári “queen” Variations
- Tinwetar ✧ Ety/TĀ; Ety/TIN (
Tinwetar); LRI/Tinwetar
tinwerontar
feminine name. Queen of Stars
Changes
Tinwerontar→ Tintanie “star-queen” ✧ Ety/TIN- Tinwerontar → Elentári ✧ LR/200
- Tinwerontar → Elentári ✧ LR/216
- Tinwerontar → Elentári ✧ LRI/Elentári
- Tinwerontar → Elentári “Queen of Stars” ✧ LRI/Tinwerontar
Elements
Word Gloss tinwe “spark (star)” tar- “high; king or queen (in compounds)”
Precursor to S. Elbereth from the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, a combination of tim “star” and Bridhil “queen” (GL/24, 70). In this period, only its Qenya equivalent ᴱQ. Tinwetári was used in the narratives. The name did appear in the earliest Silmarillion drafts of the late 1920s (SM/82), and a variant of this name, N. Timbredhil, appeared in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/TIN), but starting with the Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, Tolkien consistently used Elbereth instead.