The name of a flower in Lórien translated “sun-star” also given as the name of the first daughter of Samwise (LotR/1026). It is a combination of el “star” and Anor “sun” (PE17/55). In notes for the tale of Aldarion and Erendis, Tolkien said it also grew in Númenor and “was a small golden star-shaped flower” (UT/216 note #20). In a letter to Amy Ronald from 1969, Tolkien described it as “a pimpernel (perhaps a little enlarged) growing sun-golden flowers and star-silver ones on the same plant, and sometimes the two combined” (Let/402). Thus it was either a golden star-shaped flower or a pimpernel-like plant growing both sun-coloured and star-coloured flowers.
Sindarin
pim
noun. tail
pimp
noun. tail
elanor
noun. pimpernel, small golden star-shaped flower, (lit.) sun-star
elanor
pimpernel
: the word elanor (pl. elanoer) refers to a kind of pimpernel with golden and silver flowers.
elanor
pimpernel
(pl. elanoer) refers to a kind of pimpernel with golden and silver flowers.
finios
noun. larch
A neologism for “tail” coined by Paul Strack in 2021 specifically for Eldamo, the Sindarin equivalent of ᴺQ. pimpë. Jenna Carpenter suggested ᴺS. pim “tail” in VQP (VQP), but I see no reason why the p would vanish; compare to S. nimp “pale”.