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Changes recorded: Details, Search termsivann
feminine name. Fruit-giver
Sindarin name of Yavanna.
Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, this name appeared as G. Ivon or Ifon (GL/18), and appeared as Ifan in the very early Silmarillion drafts from the late 1920s (SM/12). It appeared as N. Ivann in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/YAB). It is not directly attested in Tolkien’s later writings, but appears as an element in the names Ivanneth “September, ✱Yavanna-ness” (LotR/1110) and Ivonwin “Maidens of Yavanna” (PM/404).
Changes recorded: Information, Search termsivann
feminine name. Fruit-giver
Sindarin name of Yavanna.
Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, this name appeared as G. Ivon or Ifon (GL/18), and appeared as Ifan in the very early Silmarillion drafts from the late 1920s (SM/12). It appeared as N. Ivann in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/YAB). It is not directly attested in Tolkien’s later writings, but appears as an element in the names Ivanneth “September, ✱Yavanna-ness” (LotR/1110) and Ivonwin “Maidens of Yavanna” (PM/404).
Changes recorded: Details, Search termsivann
feminine name. Fruit-giver
Sindarin name of Yavanna.
Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, this name appeared as G. Ivon or Ifon (GL/18), and appeared as Ifan in the very early Silmarillion drafts from the late 1920s (SM/12). It appeared as N. Ivann in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/YAB). It is not directly attested in Tolkien’s later writings, but appears as an element in the names Ivanneth “September, ✱Yavanna-ness” (LotR/1110) and Ivonwin “Maidens of Yavanna” (PM/404).
Changes recorded: Search termsivann
feminine name. Fruit-giver
Sindarin name of Yavanna.
Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, this name appeared as G. Ivon or Ifon (GL/18), and appeared as Ifan in the very early Silmarillion drafts from the late 1920s (SM/12). It appeared as N. Ivann in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/YAB). It is not directly attested in Tolkien’s later writings, but appears as an element in the names Ivanneth “September, ✱Yavanna-ness” (LotR/1110) and Ivonwin “Maidens of Yavanna” (PM/404).
Changes recorded: Information, Search termsivann
feminine name. Fruit-giver
Sindarin name of Yavanna.
Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, this name appeared as G. Ivon or Ifon (GL/18), and appeared as Ifan in the very early Silmarillion drafts from the late 1920s (SM/12). It appeared as N. Ivann in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/YAB). It is not directly attested in Tolkien’s later writings, but appears as an element in the names Ivanneth “September, ✱Yavanna-ness” (LotR/1110) and Ivonwin “Maidens of Yavanna” (PM/404).
Changes recorded: Information, Details, Search termsivann
feminine name. Fruit-giver
Sindarin name of Yavanna.
Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, this name appeared as G. Ivon or Ifon (GL/18), and appeared as Ifan in the very early Silmarillion drafts from the late 1920s (SM/12). It appeared as N. Ivann in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/YAB). It is not directly attested in Tolkien’s later writings, but appears as an element in the names Ivanneth “September, Yavanna-ness” (LotR/1110) and Ivonwin* “Maidens of Yavanna” (PM/404).
ivann
feminine name. Fruit-giver
Sindarin name of Yavanna.
Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, this name appeared as G. Ivon or Ifon (GL/18), and appeared as Ifan in the very early Silmarillion drafts from the late 1920s (SM/12). It appeared as N. Ivann in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/YAB). It is not directly attested in Tolkien’s later writings, but appears as an element in the names Ivanneth “September, Yavanna-ness” (LotR/1110) and Ivonwin* “Maidens of Yavanna” (PM/404).
ivann
feminine name. Fruit-giver
Sindarin name of Yavanna.
Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, this name appeared as G. Ivon or Ifon (GL/18), and appeared as Ifan in the very early Silmarillion drafts from the late 1920s (SM/12). It appeared as N. Ivann in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/YAB). It is not directly attested in Tolkien’s later writings, but appears as an element in the names Ivanneth “September, Yavanna-ness” (LotR/1110) and Ivonwin* “Maidens of Yavanna” (PM/404).
ivann
feminine name. Fruit-giver
Sindarin name of Yavanna.
Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, this name appeared as G. Ivon or Ifon (GL/18), and appeared as Ifan in the very early Silmarillion drafts from the late 1920s (SM/12). It appeared as N. Ivann in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/YAB). It is not directly attested in Tolkien’s later writings, but appears as an element in the names Ivanneth “September, Yavanna-ness” (LotR/1110) and Ivonwin* “Maidens of Yavanna” (PM/404).
ivann
feminine name. Fruit-giver
Sindarin name of Yavanna.
Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, this name appeared as G. Ivon or Ifon (GL/18), and appeared as Ifan in the very early Silmarillion drafts from the late 1920s (SM/12). It appeared as N. Ivann in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/YAB). It is not directly attested in Tolkien’s later writings, but appears as an element in the names Ivanneth “September, Yavanna-ness” (LotR/1110) and Ivonwin* “Maidens of Yavanna” (PM/404).
ivann
feminine name. Fruit-giver
Sindarin name of Yavanna.
Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, this name appeared as G. Ivon or Ifon (GL/18), and appeared as Ifan in the very early Silmarillion drafts from the late 1920s (SM/12). It appeared as N. Ivann in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/YAB). It is not directly attested in Tolkien’s later writings, but appears as an element in the names Ivanneth “September, *Yavanna-ness” (LotR/1110) and Ivonwin “Maidens of Yavanna” (PM/404).
ivann
feminine name. Fruit-giver
Sindarin name of Yavanna.
Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, this name appeared as G. Ivon or Ifon (GL/18), and appeared as Ifan in the very early Silmarillion drafts from the late 1920s (SM/12). It appeared as N. Ivann in the Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/YAB). It is not directly attested in Tolkien’s later writings, but appears as an element in the names Ivanneth “September, *Yavanna-ness” (LotR/1110) and Ivonwin “Maidens of Yavanna” (PM/404).
Sindarin name of Yavanna.
Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, this name appeared as G. Ivon or Ifon (GL/18), and appeared as Ifan in the very early Silmarillion drafts from the late 1920s (SM/12). It appeared as N. Ivann in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/YAB). It is not directly attested in Tolkien’s later writings, but appears as an element in the names Ivanneth “September, ✱Yavanna-ness” (LotR/1110) and Ivonwin “Maidens of Yavanna” (PM/404).