Helevorn

noun. black glass

hele (“glass”) + morn (“black, dark”)

Helevorn

'Black Glass'

topon. 'Black Glass', a lake near the Dwarf-regions in north of Dor Caranthir. Dw. Narag-zâram. >> heledh

helevorn

place name. Black Glass

The lake where the people of Caranthir dwelled (S/112), a combination of heledh “glass” and the lenited form vorn of morn “black” (PE17/37), with the dh lost because [[s|[ð] vanished before nasals]] in Sindarin.

Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, this name first appeared as N. Elivorn “Lake-Black” (LR/405), revised to N. Helevorn (LR/269). The latter name also appeared in The Etymologies with the translations “Black Glass” and nearly the same derivation as given above, only with N. hele “glass” instead of S. heledh (Ety/KHEL).

Cognates

• Kh. Narag-zâram “*Black Lake” ✧ RS/466; PE17/037

Derivations

• Kh. kheled “glass” ✧ PE17/037

Elements

Word	Gloss
heledh	“glass”
morn	“black, dark; night”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
Kh. kheled > Hele(ð)vorn	[kʰeledmorna] > [xeledmorna] > [xeleðmorna] > [xeleðmorn] > [heleðmorn] > [helemorn] > [helevorn]	✧ PE17/037

Variations

• Hele(ð)vorn ✧ PE17/037; RS/466

Helevorn

Helevorn

Helevorn means "Black Glass" in Sindarin. It was probably translated from an earlier Khuzdul name such as "Narag-zâram".