Celebrindal

noun. a title of Idril

_prop. n. _a title of Idril. >> Idril. This gloss was rejected.

Celebrindal

noun. silver foot

celebren (< celebrina “silver-like”) + tâl (“foot”) [HKF] nd didn’t became nn when n and d come from different elements of a compound.

celebrindal

feminine name. Silverfoot

Sobriquet of Idril, translated “Silver-foot” (S/126). Her name is a combination of celebrin “silver” and the lenited form -dal of tâl “foot” (SA/celeb, tal).

Conceptual Development: In the earliest Lost Tales, this name appeared as G. Talceleb “Silver Feet” (LT2/165, 216). In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, Tolkien changed the name to N. Celebrindal “Silver-foot” (SM/143, LR/141), though in The Etymologies it appeared in a variant (lenited) form Gelebrendal with an e replacing the i (Ety/KYELEP).

Cognates

• Q. Tyeleptalëa “Silver-footed”

Elements

Word	Gloss
celebrin	“like silver (in hue or worth), like silver (in hue or worth), [G.] of silver”
tâl	“foot; [lower] end”