linnod

noun. (?) a single verse used as a maxim

The word is not translated by Tolkien. The first meaning assumes that -od is a singulative affix (cf. filigod ). The second meaning is proposed by Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne in Tolkien's Legendarium p. 132, based on the metrical characteristics of Gilraen's linnod

linnod

noun. (?) a chant of a certain metrical type, where each (half-)verse is composed of seven syllables

The word is not translated by Tolkien. The first meaning assumes that -od is a singulative affix (cf. filigod ). The second meaning is proposed by Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne in Tolkien's Legendarium p. 132, based on the metrical characteristics of Gilraen's linnod

linnod

noun. linnod

n.

linnod

noun. type of poetic meter, (lit.) ?seven-chant

As suggested by Patrick Wynne and Carl Hostetter, perhaps meaning “seven-chant” (RC/700).

Elements

Word	Gloss
lind	“song, chant, singing; singer, song, chant, singing, [N.] air, tune; [N. and S.] singer”
odog	“seven”

ann-thennath

noun. a verse mode, lit. "long-shorts" (alternance of long and short vowels, or rather alternance of long and short verse units, possibly of masculine and feminine rhymes)

The word is not translated by Tolkien. Refer to Tolkien's Legendarium p. 115 for a discussion of its probable meaning

linnod

couplet

(verse couplet) linnod (pl. linnyd)

linnod

couplet

(pl. linnyd)

linnod

verse couplet

linnod (pl. linnyd)

linnod

verse couplet

(pl. linnyd)