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'''Kilmessë''', [[Quenya]] for "'''self-name'''", or '''chosen name''', was a name that some of the exiled [[Elves]] gave to themselves as a disguise, or to refer to deeds or to their personal history.<ref>{{PM|Shibboleth}}, ''Note on Mother-names'', p. 339</ref>
'''Kilmessë''', [[Quenya]] for "self-name", was a name that some of the exiled [[Elves]] gave to themselves as a disguise, or to refer to deeds or to their personal history.<ref>{{PM|Shibboleth}}, ''Note on Mother-names'', p. 339</ref>


===Other versions of the legendarium===
===Other versions of the legendarium===
In an account in ''Laws and Customs Among the Eldar'' in '''[[Morgoth's Ring]]''', the kilmessë is a name chosen by an Elf-child once she or he is capable of ''lámatyáve'', that is once they gain fluency in their mother-tongue and find pleasure in the sounds and forms of words. It is a private name, used only by family members and close friends, and reflects the child's personality or talents. It is announced in a ceremony called ''Essecilmë''.<ref>{{MR|P3II3a}}, p. 216</ref>
In an account in "Laws and Customs Among the Eldar" in ''[[Morgoth's Ring]]'', the kilmessë is a name chosen by an Elf-child once she or he is capable of ''lámatyáve'', that is once they gain fluency in their mother-tongue and find pleasure in the sounds and forms of words. It is a private name, used only by family members and close friends, and reflects the child's personality or talents. It is announced in a ceremony called ''Essecilmë''.<ref>{{MR|P3II3a}}, p. 216</ref>


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Revision as of 16:33, 26 July 2015

Kilmessë, Quenya for "self-name", was a name that some of the exiled Elves gave to themselves as a disguise, or to refer to deeds or to their personal history.[1]

Other versions of the legendarium

In an account in "Laws and Customs Among the Eldar" in Morgoth's Ring, the kilmessë is a name chosen by an Elf-child once she or he is capable of lámatyáve, that is once they gain fluency in their mother-tongue and find pleasure in the sounds and forms of words. It is a private name, used only by family members and close friends, and reflects the child's personality or talents. It is announced in a ceremony called Essecilmë.[2]

References

  1. J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "XI. The Shibboleth of Fëanor", Note on Mother-names, p. 339
  2. J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Morgoth's Ring, "Part Three. The Later Quenta Silmarillion: (II) The Second Phase: Laws and Customs among the Eldar, Of Naming", p. 216