Name of a magical metal created by Aule in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/100), a combination of the initial letters of the names of the metals: tambe “copper”, ilsa “silver”, latúken “tin”, kanu “lead”, anga “iron”, and laure “gold”.
Early Quenya
til
proper name. Til
til
noun. (single) hair
tilkal
proper name. Tilkal
tilinya
adjective. downy, hairy
A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “downy, hairy”, an adjectival form of ᴱQ. til (tiln-) “single hair” (QL/92).
tilio
proper name. Sirius
A name for Sirius in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa from the 1910s derived from the root ᴱ√TILI (QL/92; PME/92).
tilta
adjective. slanting
tilde
noun. point, tip, peak
tildi-
verb. to cover
tille
noun. eyelash
tilt-
verb. to make slope, incline (tr.), decline, shake at foundations, make totter
tiltin
adjective. slanting
tilu-
verb. to shine (blue)
tilwe
noun. glimmer
tilwin
noun. shining light, bright light
tilwínea
adjective. shining
tila
noun. (single) hair
tile
noun. single hair
tilwindea
adjective. shining
túpele
noun. roofing, tiles, roof
A noun appearing as ᴱQ. túpele “roofing, tiles, roof” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, an elaboration of ᴱQ. tupu- “to roof, cover” under the early root ᴱ√TUPU (QL/95).
Neo-Quenya: Since √TUP “cover” survives in Tolkien’s later writings, for purposes of Neo-Quenya I would retain ᴺQ. túpelë with the sense “roofing, tiles”, but for “roof” I would use the later word ᴹQ. tópa.
telar
noun. brick, tile
telelle
proper name. little elf
teler
proper name. little elf
eldarin
adjective. Elfin
eldarinwa
adjective. Elfin
milnar(wa)
noun. sown field
taru
noun. horn
tarukka
adjective. horned
A word for “horned” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, an adjectival form of ᴱQ. taru “horn” (QL/57, 89). It was also mentioned in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/57).
telella
adjective. elfin
telerea
adjective. elfin
telko
noun. stem
tinda
noun. spike
tump-
verb. to cover
A star name in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa from the 1910s derived from the root ᴱ√TILI (QL/92; PME/92).