ered luin
place name. Blue Mountains
Elements
Word Gloss orod “mountain” luin “blue” Variations
- Eryd Luin ✧ WJ/385; WJI/Eryd Luin
lhúnorodrim
place name. Blue Mountains
eredluin
place name. Blue Mountains
Changes
Eryd-luin→ Ered-luin ✧ SM/121Cognates
- ᴹQ. Lunoronti “Blue Mountains” ✧ Ety/LUG²
Variations
- Erydluin ✧ SM/108; SMI/Eredluin
- Eryd-luin ✧ SM/121 (
Eryd-luin); SM/132- Ered-luin ✧ SM/121
- Ered Luin ✧ TI/301; TII/Ered Luin
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lunoronti
place name. Blue Mountains
A Quenya name for the Blue Mountains (N. Eredluin) appearing in draft stories and The Etymologies from the 1930s (LR/32, Ety/LUG²). It is as compound of lúne “blue” and the plural of oron “mountain”.
Cognates
- N. Eredluin “Blue Mountains” ✧ Ety/LUG²
Elements
Word Gloss lúne “blue, blue, [ᴱQ.] deep blue” oron “mountain” Variations
- Lúnoronti ✧ Ety/LUG²
The “Blue Mountains” in western Beleriand and eastern Eriador (S/54, 91), also named Ered Lindon (S/123). This name is a combination of the plural of orod “mountain” and the adjective luin “blue”, which has the same singular and plural forms.
Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, this name appeared as N. Eredluin “Blue Mountains” (SM/121, LR/267), but at this stage its second element was the lenited plural of N. lhûn, as is clear from its variant name N. Lhúnorodrim (Ety/LUG²).