The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor by J.R.R. Tolkien

Author:J.R.R. Tolkien [Tolkien, J.R.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0100-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

18 Cf. 8:359 s.v. gwath, wath. The form morchaint is analyzable as mar- ‘dark' + chaint ‘shapes', where the latter element presumably represents a spirantized form of underlying *caint ‘shapes', itself the plural of * cant ‘shape'. Cf.

KAT- ‘shape' (V:362) and S. echant past tense verb ‘made' (literally, ‘shaped'), LR:297-98.

19 The figure in this sentence was altered on the typescript from " ăya > oe, ĭya > ei; ŭya > œ, e".

20 " enchui" is a replacement on the typescript for deleted " enegui".

21 A difficult note appears in the margin here, seemingly against and made at the same time as these deletions; it appears to read: "purely ui" and "revise". In connection with this, it is to be noted that the brief account of the phonological development of the Eldarin numerals given here differs in some respects from the much longer account arising later in this same essay, in the entry for Levnui: a further sign of the fluid nature of this composition.

22 The map of Middle-earth actually read Hithaiglin, prior to Christopher Tolkien's correction of the name to Hithaeglir when he redrew the map for Unfinished Tales. On the variation Aiglos vs. Aeglos (of the name of the spear of Gil-galad, LR:237), Christopher Tolkien notes that he substituted the latter for the former in Of the Rings of Power (S:294).

23 I.e., LR:221.

24 This was changed to "raime ‘network, lace'," then marked stet.

25 That is, in Quenya there are two homophonous and etymologically related

verbs raita: raita 1 ‘to make a network or lace', synonymous with rea; and raita2 ‘to catch in a net'.

26 Cf. KAS-'head',V:362.

27 Altered from WAY. Cf. the base WEY- ‘wind, weave (V:398).

28 An initial, handwritten version of these last three typescript sentences reads: "Similar was √REB applied to actual nets (as for fishing or snaring). Q. rembe 'a hunter's or fisher's net', S. rem. Cp. remmirath ‘group of jewels caught in a net' = Pleiades."

29 I.e., LR:1089 n. 1.

30 Cf . RINGI- ‘cold', V:383.

31 I.e., mor- ‘dark' + nan 'valley'.

32 Cf. LR:1087, entry for F.

33 In other words, the name is pronounced Levnui, with the sound of English v, but is best spelt Lefnui in an English context.

34 This not uncommon phenomenon of place names is exemplified further in The Lord of the Rings by such forms as Bree-hill, bree being an anglicization of British *brigā (> Welsh bre ‘hill'); and Chetwood, containing an anglicization of British * k a it o- (> Welsh coed ‘wood, forest'). Cf. XII:39 n., 81.

35 With then ‘short' cf. the verse-mode names Minlamad thent / estent *'short alliterating' (XI:311) and ann-thennath

*'long-shorts'(LR:189); Lammasethen, the "shorter account of Pengolod" (V:192); and the base STINTĀ- ‘short'

(V.388). Patrick Wynne and I discuss the interpretation of the two verse-names just given in our contribution, "Three Elvish Verse Modes", to the anthology Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2000).

36 The Etymologies has KHOP- *'haven, harbour' (V:364), and the deleted base KOP- (V:365) of the same meaning, but these would be expected to yield Sindarin forms in hôb, hob- and côb, cob-, respectively, not côf.

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