adj. shut.
Sindarin
hollen
adjective. closed, shut
hollen
noun. closed
hollen
adjective. shut
fen hollen
place name. Closed Door, Shut Door
Door to the crypts of Minas Tirith, so called “for it was kept ever shut save at times of funeral” (LotR/826). This is name is translated “Shut Door” or “Closed Door”, a combination of fend “door” and hollen “closed” (PE17/98, RC/550). As an adjective, the second element should undergo soft mutation to chollen, and in his “Unfinished Index” of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien admitted that the proper form of this name would be Fen Chollen (RC/550). Tolkien published the name as Fen Hollen, no doubt motivated by the desire to prevent mispronunciation of the name, the same reasoning his son Christopher Tolkien used for changing the name Narn i Chîn Húrin to Narn i Hîn Húrin in the published version of The Silmarillion.
Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, this name first appeared as N. Fenn Forn(en) “Closed Door”, with the variation N. Fenn Uiforn “Ever Closed [Door]” (WR/338, 341).
Fen Hollen
noun. closed door
fen (“door”), [His.] hollen, sollen? (p.p. from hol- or sol- “close”)
hollen
closed
(passive participle) hollen; see CLOSE.
Fen Hollen
Fen Hollen
Fen Hollen is a Sindarin name meaning "shut door", consisting of fen ("door") and hollen ("shut").
hol
close
#hol- (i chôl, i chelir), pa.t. perhaps holl as suggested by the passive participle hollen ”closed” (the only attested form of this verb). Conceivably, hollen in the source could be a lenited form of sollen, in which case this verb should begin in s- rather than h- when not mutated.
hol
close
(i chôl, i chelir), pa.t. perhaps holl as suggested by the passive participle hollen ”closed” (the only attested form of this verb). Conceivably, hollen in the source could be a lenited form of sollen, in which case this verb should begin in s- rather than h- when not mutated.****
hol-
verb. to close, shut
tafnen
adjective. closed, blocked, stopped
Orthography normalized to tafnen, as in lefnui
uidafnen
adjective. ever-closed
Normalized to uidafnen, as in lefnui
paur
tightly closed hand
(i baur, o phaur, also -bor in compounds) (fist), pl. poer (i phoer), coll. pl. porath.
tafnen
closed
(adj.) #tafnen (stopped, blocked), lenited #dafnen; pl. tefnin (WR:341, isolated from uidavnen, with f rather than v in normalized orthography);
tafnen
closed
(stopped, blocked), lenited #dafnen; pl. tefnin *(WR:341, isolated from uidavnen, with f rather than v in normalized orthography)*;
uidafnen
ever-closed
(WJ:341, where the spelling ”uidavnen” is used), pl. uidefnin****
A word for “closed” (RC/550) or “shut” (PE17/98) in the name Fen Hollen (LotR/826). It was derived from √KHOL or SKOL “shut, close” (PE17/98) and thus hollen might be the passive participle of an otherwise unattested verb hol- “to close, shut”.
Conceptual Development: Lord of the Rings drafts of the 1940s had N. forn, fornen, or N. davnan for this name (WR/338, 341).