thalos
place name. Torrent
thalos Speculative
noun. torrent
thalas
noun. valour, courage
oll
torrent
- oll (mountain steam), pl. yll. (The source also cites the archaic form old.) 2) thorod, pl. theryd (archaic thöryd).
oll
torrent
(mountain steam), pl. yll. (The source also cites the archaic form old.)
thorod
torrent
pl. theryd (archaic thöryd).
old
noun. torrent, mountain-stream
oll
noun. torrent, mountain-stream
thórod
noun. torrent
thórod
noun. torrent
A noun for “torrent” in The Etymologies of the 1930s based on the root ᴹ√THOR “come swooping down” (Ety/THOR; EtyAC/THOR). In The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road Christopher Tolkien gave the form as thórod (LR/393), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne corrected this to thôrod in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/19). However, in normal Sindarin/Noldorin orthography ô is only used for monosyllables, so thórod is the expected form.
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thalos
noun. torrent
An Ilkorin noun for “torrent” (Ety/STAL), apparently a combination of the adjective thall “falling steeply” and the suffix -os.
Conceptual Development: Since the river-name Thalos survived in Tolkien’s later writings (S/123), thalos “torrent” may have become Sindarin, but compare [N.] thórod “torrent” (Ety/THOR).
thalos
place name. Torrent
thalos
noun. valour, courage
narog
place name. Torrent
One of the seven streams from which Ossiriand got its name (S/123), and is simply thalos “torrent” used as a name (Ety/STAL). Given the river’s location in Ossiriand, this name might be Nandorin instead.
Conceptual Development: In The Etymologies from the 1930s, the name Thalos was designated Ilkorin, with the derivation given above (Ety/STAL). Like many of the river names in Ossiriand, Tolkien did not give a new etymology of the name after he abandoned the Ilkorin language.