Inwл In QL this, the name of ‘the ancient king of the fairies who led them to the world’, is a derivative of a root INI ‘small’, whence also the adjective inya and the names Inwilis, Inwinуrл ‘Faлry’ and ‘England’ (the latter struck out). Tol Eressлa was here said to have been named Inwinуrл after Inwл, but this was changed to say that it was named Ingilnуrл after his son Ingil. These entries relate to a very early conception (see Alalminуrл, Eldamar). For other names of Inwл see Inwithiel, Isil.
Inwir See Inwл. In GL the ‘noble clan of the Tilthin’ (Teleri) are called Imrim, singular Im (see Inwithiel).
Inwithiel In the texts Inwithiel, Gnomish name of King Inwл, is an emendation from (Gim) Githil (p. 22, 131). In GL these names Inwithiel, Githil are given as additional to his proper names Inweg or Im. See Isil.
Isil In the tale of The Coming of the Elves (p. 115) Inwл is called Isil Inwл, and in GL the Gnomish form corresponding to Isil is Githil (to the name of his son Githilma corresponds Qenya Isilmo). In QL is a root ISI (iska ‘pale’, is ‘light snow’), of which the Gnomish equivalent is given as ith- or gith-; GL has a word ith ‘fine snow’.
Kalaventл See Galmir, Glorvent.
Kalormл This appears in QL among the derivatives of root KALA (see Galmir), with the meaning ‘hill-crest over which the Sun rises’. ormл="summit," crest’, from a root ORO with apparently a base sense of ‘rise’: or ‘on’, oro ‘hill’, oro- ‘rise’, orto- ‘raise’, oronta ‘steep’, orosta ‘ascension’, etc.; Gnomish or ‘on, onto, on top’, orod, ort ‘mountain’, orm ‘hill-top’, oros, orost- ‘rising’. Cf. Oromл, Orossi, Tavrobel.
Kapalinda (The source of the river in the place of the banishment of the Noldoli in Valinor, p. 157.) QL has kapalinda ‘spring of water’ among derivatives of root KAPA ‘leap, spring’ linda is obscure.
Kaukareldar Under the root KAWA ‘stoop’ in QL are derivations kauka ‘crooked, bent, humped’, kauko ‘humpback’, kawin ‘I bow’, kaurл ‘fear’, kaurлa ‘timid’.
Kelusindi (The river in the place of the banishment of the Noldoli in Valinor, p. 157; in the text called Sirnъmen.) In QL under root KELE, KELU ‘flow, trickle, ooze’ are given many derivatives including kelusindi ‘a river’, also kelu, kelumл ‘stream’, kektelл ‘fountain’ (also in the form ektelл), etc. For -sindi see Sirion.
Kйmi QL gives kemi ‘earth, soil, land’ and kemen ‘soil’, from root KEME. The Gnomish name is Cнmir, which="Q." Kйmi ‘Mother Earth’. There is also a Gnomish word grosgen ‘soil’ in which -gen is said to="Q." kйmi.
Koiviл-nйni ‘Waters of Awakening.’ In QL under root KOYO ‘have life’ are derivatives koi, koirл ‘life’, koitл ‘living being’, koina, koirлa ‘alive’, koiva ‘awake’, koiviл ‘awakening’. In GL are cuil ‘life’, cuith ‘life, living body’, etc.; cwiv- ‘be awake’, cwivra- ‘awaken’, cuivros ‘awakening’: Nenin a Gwivros ‘Waters of Awakening’. For -nйni, Nenin see Neni Erъmлar.
Kуpas QL has kуpa ‘harbour’, the only word given under root KOPO ‘keep, guard’. GL has gobos ‘haven’, with a reference to Q. kуpa, kуpas; also gob ‘hollow of hand’, gobli ‘dell’.
Kфr In QL this name is given under the root KORO ‘revere?’, with the note ‘the ancient town built above the rocks of Eldamar, whence the fairies marched into the world’ also placed here are korda ‘temple’, kordon ‘idol’. The Gnomish form is here given as Cфr, but in GL Cфr (‘the hill of the fairies and the town thereon near the shores of the Bay of Faлry’) was replaced by Gwвr, Goros ‘="Q." Kфr the town on the round hill’. This interpretation of the name Kфr clearly replaces that in QL, which belongs with the earliest layer of entries. See further under korin.
korin See Kфr. In QL there is a second root KORO (i.e. distinct from that which gave Kфr); this has the meaning ‘be round, roll’, and has such derivatives as korima ‘round’, kornл ‘loaf’, also korin ‘a circular enclosure, especially on a hill-top’. At the same time as Cфr was replaced by Gwвr, Goros in GL the word gorin (gwarin) ‘circle of trees, ="=Q." korin’ was entered, and all these forms derive from the same root (gwas- or gor- < guor="Q." kor-), which would seem to signify ‘roundness’ so in the tale of The Coming of the Elves ‘the Gods named that hill Kфr by reason of its roundness and its smoothness’ (p. 122).
Koromas A separate and early entry in QL defines Kormas (the form in the text before emendation to Koromas, p. 22) thus: ‘the new capital of the fairies after their retreat from the hostile world to Tol Eressлa, now Inwinуrл. It was named in m1emory of Kфr and because of its great tower was called also Kortirion.’ For -mas see Eldamar.
Kortirion The word tirion ‘a mighty tower, a city on a hill’ is given in QL under root TIRI ‘stick up’, with tinda ‘spike’, tirin ‘tall tower’, tirios ‘a town with walls and towers’. There is also another root TIRI, differing in the nature of the medial consonant, with meaning ‘watch, guard, keep; look at, observe’, whence tiris ‘watch, vigil’, etc. In GL are tir- ‘look out for, await’, tirin (poetic form tirion) ‘watch-tower, turret’, Tirimbrithla ‘the Tower of Pearl’ (see Silmarilli).