Ai! Lá polin saca i quettar!
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A word for “afar” in the song A Elbereth Gilthoniel from the phrase na-chaered __palan__-díriel “to lands remote I have looked afar”, and also the phrase o menel __palan__-diriel “from heaven gazing far” (LotR/238; RGEO/63-64). In The Road Goes Ever On (RGEO) from 1967, Tolkien indicated the actual meaning was “abroad, far and wide” (RGEO/64). S. palan is equivalent to Q. palan of similar meaning, and was probably borrowed directly from Quenya (PE17/25). The main evidence for borrowing is that the ancient final *n* was not lost as was usually the case in Sindarin; compare S. êl vs. Q. elen “star”.