Nandini
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Nandini (or the dryads) were the fays of the valleys,[note 1][1] according to the early version of the legendarium in The Book of Lost Tales.[2]
They arrived to the world with Aulë and Yavanna, along with many other types of fays.[3]
Etymology[edit | edit source]
The name Nandini is in Qenya, being the plural form of nandin ("dryad");[4] the Gnomish cognate of nandin was nandir.[1]
The word nandin is most likely related to the word nan(d) ("woodland"), which was derived from the root NAŘA.[5][4] See also the related Gnomish words nand or nann ("a field acre").[1]
Other versions of the legendarium[edit | edit source]
In a later version of the legendarium from The Etymologies (1930s), the term "dryad" is instead applied to the tavari, a related group of beings.[6]
Notes
- ↑ In the Gnomish Lexicon, they were the "fays of the country" instead.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, "I-Lam na-Ngoldathon: The Grammar and Lexicon of the Gnomish Tongue", in Parma Eldalamberon XI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne), entries nand, nann and nandir, p. 59
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Early Qenya and The Valmaric Script", in Parma Eldalamberon XIV (edited by Carl F. Hostetter, Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, Patrick H. Wynne, and Bill Welden), "The Creatures of the Earth", p. 10
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part One, "III. The Coming of the Valar and the Building of Valinor", p. 66
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Qenyaqetsa: The Qenya Phonology and Lexicon", in Parma Eldalamberon XII (edited by Carl F. Hostetter, Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne), entry NAŘA, p. 64
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Early Qenya and The Valmaric Script", in Parma Eldalamberon XIV (edited by Carl F. Hostetter, Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, Patrick H. Wynne, and Bill Welden), "The Creatures of the Earth", note 13, p. 7
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", entry TÁWAR-, p. 391
