Sindarin 

glornan

place name. Valley of Gold(en Light)

Sindarin equivalent of the original Nandorin name of Lórien: Lórinand (UT/253), a combination of glaur “gold” and nan(d) “valley”.

Cognates

  • Q. Laurenandë “Valley of Gold” ✧ UT/253; UTI/Lórien²

Elements

WordGloss
glaur“gold [light or colour]”
nan(d)“vale, valley, vale, valley, [ᴱN.] dale; [N.] wide grassland; [G.] field acre”
Sindarin [UT/253; UTI/Glornan; UTI/Lórien²] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nan laur

place name. Valley of Gold(en Light)

Sindarin equivalent of the original Nandorin name of Lórien: Lórinand (UT/253), a combination of nan(d) “valley” and the lenited form of glaur “gold”.

Cognates

  • Q. Laurenandë “Valley of Gold” ✧ UT/253; UTI/Lórien²
Sindarin [UT/253; UTI/Lórien²; UTI/Nan Laur] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Nandorin 

lórinand

place name. Valley of Gold(en Light)

Cognates

  • Q. Laurenandë “Valley of Gold” ✧ UT/252; UTI/Lórien²

Derivations

Derivatives

  • S. Lórien “*Golden Lands” ✧ NM/351; UT/253; UTI/Lórien²

Variations

  • Lōrinand ✧ NM/347
  • Lawarind ✧ NM/351
  • Lóriand ✧ PE17/048
Nandorin [NM/347; NM/351; PE17/048; TII/Lórinand; UT/252; UT/253; UTI/Lórien²; UTI/Lórinand] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lórinand

place name. Valley of Gold

Altered from Lindórinand, q.v. (UT:252-253). This word would seem to point to lóri- (the independent form may differ somewhat) as the Nandorin word for "gold, golden light", transparently a derivative of the stem LÁWAR (LR:368) that covers precisely this meaning; a primitive form laurê is given in the Etymologies. This word alone testifies a Nandorin shift au > ó. (However, the final vowel of laurê would be expected to come out as -a in Nandorin; cf. hrassa from khrassê; it may be that lóri- rather represents a colour-adjective lauri; if so the final -i may be preserved before endings and in compounds only, the independent form being lór.) >> Lórien

Nandorin [H. Fauskanger (UT:252-253:368)] < LÁWAR. Published by