Another name for Herendil in Tolkien’s unfinished story “The Lost Road”, translated “Slender and Dark” (LR/59). In The Etymologies, the name was glossed “slender-dark” given as a compound of teren “slender” and the root ᴹ√(N)DUL, which had derivatives such as nulla “dark” (Ety/DUL, NDUL, TER).
Qenya
teren
adjective. slender, slender; [ᴱQ.] lissom, lithe
terendul
masculine name. Slender and Dark
terene
adjective. slender
ninde
adjective. slender, slender, *thin
A word for “slender” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√NIN-DI “fragile, thin” (Ety/NIN-DI).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would also use this word for “✱thin” based on the meaning of its root.
An adjective appearing as teren or terene “slender” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, derived from ᴹ✶terēn(ē) under the root ᴹ√TER “pierce” (Ety/TER). The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. teren “lissom, lithe” under the early root ᴱ√TEŘE [TEÐE] also having to do with piercing, but Tolkien marked ᴱQ. teren with a “?” (QL/91).