elvish placenames: woods and forests (1)

common elements:
eryn ~ wood
glad ~ wood
taur ~ great wood, forest
tawar ~ great wood, forest (also pertains to the material)

Eryn Laer, Lothlórien:
Eryn meaning wood and laer meaning summer or song.  Summer Wood or Wood of Song.

Taur Hith, Lothlórien:
Taur meaning forest and hith meaning mist or fog.  Forest of Mist.

Taur Ornolf, Trollshaws:
Taur meaning forest and orn meaning large tree.  I think olf is from golf meaning branch. Perhaps Forest of large branching trees.

Gladdalf, Trollshaws:
Glad meaning wood and dalf meaning flat field or land (from talf).  Wood on flat land (doesn’t sound very poetic so I suspect there is a better translation!)

As a point of interest, Tauriel (who will appear in the 2nd instalment of the The Hobbit) means daughter of the forest (taur ~ forest and iel ~ daughter).  Fantastic name for a female elf of Mirkwood – I wish I’d thought of it!

(Translations are from the Appendix: Elements in Quenya and Sindarin, The Silmarillion, J.R. R. Tolkien or Hiswelókë’s Sindarin Dictionary.  I am not an expert at all – if you see any mistakes please let me know!)