Tag: sindarin

Common elements:

Celon ~ river
Duin ~ (long and large) river
Nen ~ water

Baranduin:
Baran meaning golden-brown and duin meaning river.  More commonly known as the Brandywine river.

Celondim:
Celon meaning river and dîm meaning sadness.  Possibly River of Sadness.

Falathlorn:
Falath meaning beach or wave-beaten shore and lorn meaning quiet water, anchorage or harbour.  Shore of the Quiet Water perhaps.

Nen Harn:
Nen meaning water and harn (from sarn) meaning stone.  I’d guess Stone Lake.

Nenuial:
Nen meaning water and uial meaning twilight.  More commonly known as Lake Evendim.

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

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!)

common elements:

Celon ~ river
Duin ~ (long and large) river
Nen ~ water

Anduin, Lothlórien:
And meaning long and duin meaning river.  Known as the Great River.

Bruinen, Trollshaws: 
Brui meaning loud, noisy and nen meaning water.  Also known as the Loud-Water.

Celebrant, Lothlórien:
Celeb meaning silver (particularly of silver deposits) and rant meaning course or riverbed.  Known as the Silver-lode.

Mitheithel, Ettenmoors:
Mith meaning grey and eithel meaning spring or well. Otherwise known as the Hoarwell.

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

common elements:
Amon (pl. Emyn) ~ Hill
Orod (pl. Ered) ~ Mountain
Dol ~ ‘head’ often applied to hills and mountains

Amon Ros, Lone-lands
Amon meaning hill, ros meaning spray or foam or ross meaning rain.  Hill of Rain, I think.

Emyn Hoedh, Ered Luin
Emyn meaning hills, hoedh is the plural of haudh which means grave, burial mound or tomb.  Perhaps Barrow Hills, given the common term for ancient tombs seems to be barrows.

Dol Ringwest, Ered Luin
Dol loosely meaning hill, ring meaning cold and west ~ breath or breeze.  Hill of the Cold Breeze.

Ered Luin (no screenshot, this refers to both the mountain range and the zone found in Lotro)
Ered meaning mountains, luin meaning blue.  The Blue Mountains.

Orodost, Ered Luin
Orod meaning mountain, ost meaning fortress .  Mountain Fortress.

(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!)

 

I thought I’d start by translating some of the placenames you will come across early on during your travel in Middle-Earth, including the place name  that got me started (echad candelleth).  I’ve found remembering the common elements isn’t too bad (e.g. ost ~ fortress, amon ~ hill, echad ~ camp) and it makes navigating a little easier if I know what type of landmark I’m looking for.  Each post will contain 2 or 3 common elements, with 4 -5 examples.  I’ve included a screenshot for each place so that it will jog your memory if you haven’t been there for a while and also I just love taking screenshots

common elements:
amon (pl. emyn) ~ hill / hills
echad ~ camp

Amon Sûl, Lone-lands
Amon meaning hill and sûl meaning wind.  More famously known as Weathertop.

Amon Thanc, Ered Luin
Amon meaning hill and thanc meaning split, cleft, forked. Perhaps known as Cloven Hill, given Clovendale is very near.

Echad Candelleth, Trollshaws
Echad meaning camp.  Candelleth is an elf-maiden found there, so this simply translates to Candelleth’s Camp.

Echad Sûl, Lone-lands
Echad meaning camp and sûl meaning wind.  Camp of Wind.

Gondamon, Ered Luin
Gond meaning stone and amon meaning hill.  Hill of Stone.

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