Murmenalda Translated in the text as ‘Vale of Sleep’, ‘the Slumbrous Dale’ (pp. 233, 235). QL under root MURU gives muru- ‘to slumber’, murmл ‘slumber’, murmлa ‘slumbrous’. The second element is from a root NLDL, of which the derivatives in QL are nal(lл) ‘dale, dell’ and nalda ‘valley’ used as an adjective. In Gnomish occur nal ‘dale, vale’, nal ‘down, downwards’, nalos ‘sinking, setting, slope’, Nalosaura ‘sunset’, etc. Cf. Murmuran.
Murmuran See Murmenalda. GL gives the Gnomish form corresponding1 to Qenya Murmuran as Mormaurien ‘abode of Lъriel’, but this seems to be of different etymology: cf. Malmaurien="Olуrл" Mallл, the Path of Dreams, maur ‘dream, vision’.
Nandini On an isolated paper that gives a list of the different clans of ‘fays’ the Nandini are ‘fays of the valleys’. QL gives a root NARA with derivatives nan(d) ‘woodland’, nandin ‘dryad’ GL has nandir ‘fay of the country, Q. nandin’, together with nand ‘field, acre’ (plural nandin ‘country’), nandor ‘farmer’, etc.
Nauglath GL gives the following words: naug and naugli ‘dwarf’, naugla ‘of gives the dwarves’ nauglafel ‘dwarf-natured, i.e. mean, avaricious’ (see p. 236). QL has nothing corresponding, but in GL the Qenya equivalent of naug is said to be nauka.
Neni Erъmлar (On the ‘World-Ship’ drawing, where I have translated it ‘Outermost Waters’, p. 85.) QL under root NENE ‘flow’ has nen ‘river, water’, and the same form occurs in Gnomish. Erъmлa ‘outer, outermost’ is given in AL as a derivative of ERE ‘out’, as in Eruman. Cf. Koiviл-nйni.
Nermir In the list of fays referred to under Nandini the Nermir are ‘fays of the meads’. QL has an isolated entry Nermi ‘a field-spirit’, and GL has Nermil ‘a fay that haunts meadows and river-banks.’.
Nessa This name does not appear in the dictionaries.—In the Valar name-list she is called Helinyetillл and Melesta. In QL, among the very early entries, helin is the name of the violet or pansy, and Helinyetillл is glossed ‘Eyes of Heartsease’ (that being a name of the pansy); cf, yґta ‘look at’. But in QL this is a name of Erinti. There was clearly much early shifting among the goddesses of Spring, the ascription of names and rфles (see Erinti). Melesta is doubtless from root MELE ‘love’ (meles(sл) ‘love’, melwa ‘lovely’, etc.; Gnomish mel- ‘to love’, meleth ‘love’, melon, meltha ‘beloved’, etc.).
Nielнqui In QL this name (Nieliqi, also Nielikki, Nyelikki) is derived from the root NYEHE ‘weep’ (see Nienna). Where her tears fell snowdrops (nieninqл, literally ‘white tear’) sprang. See the poem Nieninqл in J. R. R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays, 1983, p. 215. For ninqл see Taniquetil.
The second element of Nielнqui is presumably from the root LIQI, whence linqл ‘water’, liqin ‘wet,’ liqis ‘transparence’, etc. (see Ulmo).
Nielluin This name of the star Sirius is translated in the text (p. 182) as ‘the Bee of Azure’ (see Ingil). The first element is from the root NEHE, whence nektл ‘honey’, nier (< neier < neier) ‘honey-bee’, nierwes ‘hive’. The name of Sirius is given in QL as Niellъnл or Nierninwa; both ninwa and lъnл are Qenya words meaning ‘blue’. In Gnomish the name of the star is Niothluimi, = Qenya Nielluin: nio, nios ‘bee’ and many related words,1 luim ‘blue’.
Nienna In QL Nyenna the goddess is given under a root NYE(NE) ‘bleat’, whence nyйni ‘she-goat’, nyйna- ‘lament’, etc.; but there is a note ‘or all to root NYEHE’. This means ‘weep’: niл‘tear’ (cf.Nielнqui), nyenyл ‘weeping’. In GL the forms of the name are Nenni(r), Nenir, Nenir, without etymological connections given, but cf. nоn ‘tear’.
Noldoli The root NOL ‘know’ in QL has derivatives Noldo ‘Gnome’ and Noldorinwa adjective, Noldomar ‘Gnomeland’, and Noldorin ‘who dwelt awhile in Noldomar and brought the Gnomes back to Inwenуrл. It seems that Noldomar means the Great Lands. But it is very curious that in these entries, which are among the earliest, ‘Gnome’ is an emendation of ‘Goblin’ cf. the poem Goblin Feet (1915), and its Old English title Cumaю Юб Nihtielfas (p. 32).
In Gnomish ‘Gnome’ is Golda (‘i.e. wise one’); Goldothrim ‘the people of the Gnomes’, Goldogrin their tongue, Goldobar, Goldomar ‘Gnomeland’. The equivalent of Noldorin in GL is Goldriel, which was the form antecedent to Golthadriel in the text before both were struck out (p. 22). See Nуlemл.
Noldorin See Noldoli.
Nуlemл This is given in QL as a common noun, ‘deep lore, wisdom’ (See Noldoli). The Gnomish name of Finwл Nуlemл, Golfinweg (p. 115), contains the same element, as must also the name Fingolma given to him in outlines for Gilfanon’s Tale (pp. 238–9).
I Nori Landar (On the ‘World-Ship’ drawing, probably meaning ‘the Great Lands’, pp. 84–5.) For nori see Valinor. Nothing similar to landar appears in QL; GL gives a word land (lann) ‘broad’.
Nornorл In QL this name has the form Nornoros ‘herald of the Gods’, and with the verb nornoro- ‘run on, run smoothly’ is derived from a root NORO ‘run, ride, spin, etc.’. GL has similar words, nor- run‘, roll’, norn ‘wheel’, nыr ‘smooth, rolling free’. The name corresponding to Qenya Nornorл is here Drondor ‘messenger of the Gods’ (drond ‘race, course, track’ and drф ‘wheel-track, rut’); Drondor was later changed to Dronъrin (<Noron