Telimpл Not in QL Under root TELPE, which has however telempл=telpл ‘silver’. Gnomish words are celeb ‘silver’, celebrin ‘of silver’, Celebron, Celioth names of the Moon. See Ilasluntл.
Tevildo Given in QL under root TEFE (with derivatives teve- ‘to hate’, tevin, teviл ‘hatred’) and explained as ‘the Lord of Cats’ (see p. 47). The Gnomish form is Tifil, ‘Prince of Cats’.
Tilkal A name made up of the initial sounds of six names of metals (see p. 100 and footnote). For tambл ‘copper’ see Aulл, and for ilsa ‘silver’ see Ilasluntл. Latъken ‘tin’ is given as a separate entry in QL, with latukenda ‘of tin’ the Gnomish form is ladog. Kanu ‘lead’, kanuva ‘leaden’ are placed under a root KANA in QL. For anga ‘iron’ see Angamandi, and for laurл ‘gold’ see Laurelin.
Timpinen The name stands in QL as the only derivative of a root TIFI, but under root TIPI are given timpл ‘fine rain’, timpinл ‘spray’, etc. See Tinfang.
Tinfang The entry in GL is: ‘Tinfing or Tinfang the fluter (surnamed Gwarbilin or Birdward), a fay; cf. Q. timpinen a fluter (Timpando, Varavilindo)’. Other Gnomish words are tif- ‘whistle’, timpa- ‘ring, jingle’, timpi ‘little bell’, timp ‘hoot, note of a flute’, tifin ‘small flute’. The first element in Gwarbilin is seen also in Amon Gwareth ‘Hill of Watch’, which occurs in the tale of The Fall of Gondolin; the second is bilin(c) ‘sparrow, small bird’.
Tinwл Linto, Tinwelint GL has: ‘Tinweg (also Lintinweg) and more usually Tinwelint, ="Q." Tinwл Linto; originally leader of the Solosimpi (after led by Ellu), but became King of the Lost Elves of Artanor’. The first element of the name is derived from TIN-, with such derivatives as tim ‘spark, gleam, (star)’, tintiltha- ‘twinkle’, tinwithli ‘star-cluster, constellation’. The second element is possibly Gnomish lint ‘quick, nimble, light’—which my father referred to in his essay ‘A Secret Vice’ (The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays, 1983, p. 205) as a word he remembered from a very early stage of his linguistic constructions. The name is not in QL either in the earlier form (Linwл Tinto, p. 130) or the later, but under root TINI are tinwл ‘star’, tint ‘(silver) spark’, etc., and also lintitinwл ‘having many stars’, the first element of this being a multiplicative prefix li-, lin-. Cf. Tinwetбri.
Tinwetбri ‘Queen of Stars’. For the elements of this name see Tinwл Linto, Qalmл-Tбri. The corresponding Gnomish name is Tinturwin with a different second element (see Meril-i-Turinqi). Varda is also called Timbridhil, Timfiril, with the same first element (Bridhil being the Gnomish name of Varda), and Gailbridh(n)ir, which contains gail ‘star’ (corresponding to Qenya нlл in Нlivarda, not found in QL.
Tol Eressлa Under root TOLO OL has derivatives tol ‘island; any rise standing alone in water, plain of green, etc.’, tolmen ‘boss (of shield), isolated round hill, etc.’, tolos ‘knob, lump’, tуlл ‘centre’, and other words. GL gives tol ‘an isle with high steep coasts’.
Eressлa a given in QL under root ERE (distinct from that seen in Eruman) ‘remain alone’: er ‘only, but, still’, eressл ‘singly, only, alone’, eressлa ‘lonely’, erda ‘solitary, deserted’, erin ‘remains’ In Gnomish the Lonely Isle is Tol Erethrin (er ‘one’, ereth ‘solitude’, erethrin ‘solitary, lonely’ etc.)
Tolli Kuruvar (On the ‘World-Ship’ drawing, ‘the Magic Isles’, pp. 84–5. For Tolli see Tol Eressлa. QL has a group kuru ‘magic, wizardry’, kuruvar ‘wizard’, kuruni ‘witch’, with a note: ‘of the good magic’. GL has curu ‘magic’, curug ‘wizard’, curus ‘witch’.
TomboTombo ‘gong’ is derived in QL from a root TUMU ‘swell (with idea of hollowness)’, together with tumbл ‘trumpet’, tumbo ‘dark vale’, tumna ‘deep, profound, dark or hidden’ (see Utumna). Words in Gnomish are tыm ‘valley’, tum ‘hollow’, tumli ‘dale’, tumbol ‘valley-like, hollow’, tumla- ‘hollow out’.
Tuilйrл QL, root TUYU: tuilл ‘Spring, literally a budding—also collectively: buds, new shoots, fresh green’, Tuilйrл ‘Spring’, and several other words, as tuilindo ‘(spring-singer), swallow’. Gnomish forms are tuil, tuilir ‘Spring’ (with the note that Tuilir = Vбna); but Vбna is also called Hairen ‘Spring’, presumably connected with hair ‘punctual, timely’, hai ‘punctually’, haidri ‘forenoon’.