findor
masculine name. Findor
gwindor
masculine name. Gwindor
An Elf of Nargothrond who brought Túrin to that city (S/207-212). The meaning of this name is unclear, but David Salo suggested it might be a combination of gwain “new” and -dor “lord” (GS/352).
Conceptual Development: In the earliest Lost Tales, this character was first named G. Flinding (LT2/124), and might contain ᴱN. flind “fleet-footed, swift”. In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s his name was revised to N. Findor > N. Gwindor (SM/312).
gwindor
masculine name. Gwindor
findori
noun. barley
A neologism for “barley” coined by Helge Fauskanger for his NQNT (NQNT), perhaps combination of findë “hair” and [ᴱQ.] ore (ori-) “grain”. In NQNT, this appeared only in the possessive form findoriva “of barley”, indicating a stem for of findori-. I prefer ᴺQ. ori as the Neo-Quenya adaptation of ᴱQ. ore “grain”, so I would assume the uninflected form of this noun was findori.
An earlier birth name of Gil-galad, though Tolkien’s writing is difficult to read and the exact form is unclear (WJ/56). This name may contain the element fin seen in the Sindarin names of the descendants of Q. Finwë, combined with the suffix -dor “✱king, lord”. His later birth name is given as Ereinion (S/154).