Primitive elvish glim root. gleam, glint A Sindarin-only root glossed “gleam, glint” Tolkien coined to explain the name Maeglin (PM/337). Tolkien said it was used “usually of fine slender but bright shafts of light ... particularly applied to light of eyes”. Derivatives S. glîn(n) “gleam, glint” ✧ WJ/337S. glintha- “to glance (at)” ✧ WJ/337 Variations glim ✧ WJ/337 ōma noun. voice Derivatives Q. óma “voice, resonance of the vocal chords, vowel” ✧ PE17/076 Element in ᴺS. úvae “vowel; vocalic”
A Sindarin-only root glossed “gleam, glint” Tolkien coined to explain the name Maeglin (PM/337). Tolkien said it was used “usually of fine slender but bright shafts of light ... particularly applied to light of eyes”.