Early Quenya
silindrin
proper name. Moon-cauldron
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
silindrin
proper name. Moon-cauldron
A Qenya name for the moon in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/71). It was translated (or described) by Christopher Tolkien as “Moon-cauldron” (LT1A/Silindrin). Its first element is clearly Sil “Moon”, but the meaning of the rest of the name is unclear.
Conceptual Development: This name was first written as Telimpe (LT1/79), a name that was probably derived from the root ᴱ√TELEPE having to do with “silver”, as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Telimpë).