Calacirya
light-cleft
calacirya
place name. Pass of Light
The “Pass of Light” through the Pelóri mountains into the heart of Valinor (S/59). It is a compound of cala “light” and cirya “cleft, pass” (RGEO/62).
Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, it was called ᴹQ. Kalakilya (LR/173), using an earlier word for “pass”: ᴹQ. kilya (Ety/KIL).
Calacilya
pass of light
Calacilya ("k") place-name "Pass of Light", in which Kôr was built (KIL, KAL). Evidently a variant of Calacirya.
calaciryan
place name. *Land of Calacirya
According to Tolkien: “the region of Eldamar near the entrance to the ravine [Calacirya] where the Light was brighter and more beautiful” (RGEO/62). It seems to be a combination of Calacirya “Pass of Light” with the suffix -yan(de) (from ✶yandē) “-land”. This suffix is rarely used in Quenya, but is commonly seen in Sindarin as the suffix -ian(d). In some places, Tolkien used this name to refer directly to the pass itself (MR/176, WJ/403).
Calaciryan
the cleft of light
Calaciryan ("k") place-name "the Cleft of Light", the pass in the Pelóri, apparently a variant of Calacirya (WJ:403, SA:kal-, kir-). Calaciryan, Calaciryandë, "the region of Eldamar (Elvenhome) in and near the entrance to the ravine, where the Light was brighter and the land more beautiful" (RGEO:70)
Calacirya
Calacirya
Calacirya literally means "Light-cleft" in Quenya (from cálë = "light" and cilya = "cleft, gorge"). Variant names used by Tolkien were Kalakirya and Kalakilya (early forms), and Kalakiryan and Calaciryan (later forms).
ar hísië untúpa calaciryo míri oialë
and mist covers the jewels of Calacirya forever
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ar hísië untúpa calaciryo míri oialë
and mist covers (lit. down-roofs) Calacirya’s jewels forever
The 14th phrase in the prose Namárië, which is essentially the same as its poetic version, differing only in its more literal translation. There is nothing particularly notable about its word order.
Calacirya place-name "Light-cleft", Calacirya, the great ravine in the mountains of Valinor, the passage leading from Valmar to the region where the Teleri lived. Genitive Calaciryo in Namárië(Nam, RGEO:67)