Sindarin 

galenas

noun. nicotiana

n. Bot. nicotiana, Gondor S. For 'pipeweed'. Q. alanesse, alenesse. >> galen

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galenas

noun. pipe-weed (leaf) or "westmansweed", a variety of Nicotiana

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galenas

noun. pipeweed, nicotiana, *tobacco

The Sindarin word for “pipeweed [✱tobacco]” (LotR/869). In notes on Words, Phrases and Passages in the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s, Tolkien gave it the gloss “nicotiana” and said its original form was galanes, assembled from [[q|[g]ala-]] “plant, grow” and (primitive?) ✶nes- “sweet smelling”, with a Quenya cognate Q. alanessë (PE17/100).

Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. fuglas “tobacco” (with variants fuglos, fauglas), a combination of G. fug- “smoulder” and G. lass “leaf” (GL/36). Some remnant of this earlier form might be seen in N. fuilas, the first word Tolkien gave for pipeweed in Lord of the Rings drafts of the 1940s (WR/38). Tolkien revised this to N. marlas and then N. romloth before settling on N. galenas (WR/38).

Cognates

  • Q. alanessë “nicotiana, pipeweed, nicotiana, pipeweed, *tobacco” ✧ PE17/100

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
GAL“grow (like plants), flourish, be healthy, be vigorous, bloom, grow (like plants), flourish, be healthy, be vigorous, bloom, [ᴹ√] thrive”
nes-“sweet smelling”
-as“abstract noun”

Variations

  • Galenas ✧ LotRI/Galenas
Sindarin [LotR/0869; LotRI/Galenas; LotRI/Pipe-weed; PE17/100] Group: Eldamo. Published by

galenas

pipe-weed

galenas (i **alenais) (tobacco), pl. gelenais (i ngelenais = i ñelenais), coll pl. galenassath**

galenas

pipe-weed

galenas (i **alenais), pl. gelenais (i ngelenais = i ñelenais), coll pl. galenassath**

galenas

pipe-weed

(i ’alenais) (tobacco), pl. gelenais (i ngelenais = i ñelenais), coll pl. galenassath

galenas

tobacco

1) galenas (i **alenais) (pipe-weed), pl. gelenais (i ngelenais = i ñelenais), coll pl. galenassath, 2) romloth (”horn-flower”), pl. remlyth (archaic römlyth**)

galenas

tobacco

(i ’alenais) (pipe-weed), pl. gelenais (i ngelenais = i ñelenais), coll pl. galenassath

romloth

tobacco

(”horn-flower”), pl. remlyth (archaic römlyth)