Q. Sindanórië [þ] loc. “Grey Country, Land of Greyness”

Q. Sindanórië [þ], loc. “Grey Country, Land of Greyness”

The name of a land mentioned in Galadriel’s Namárië poem (LotR/337). In one place, Tolkien said it was the “name of a mythical region of shadows lying at outer feet of the Mountains of Valinor” (PE17/72). This name is a compound of sinda “grey” and nórë “country”, with the suffix -ië¹ common in abstract nouns. In another note Tolkien said that sindanórië was an archiac formation that meant “land of greyness” and was equivalent to sindie-nóre (PE17/72), so perhaps the -ië suffix at the end was actually associated with the adjective sinda “grey”.

References ✧ LotR/377; PE17/72; RGEO/58-59

Glosses

Variations

Inflections

sinda-nōrie-llo ablative “grey-country-from” ✧ RGEO/59
sindanóriello ablative “out of a grey country” ✧ LotR/377
sindanóriello ablative   ✧ PE17/72
sínda-nṓrië́-llo ablative “out of a grey country” ✧ RGEO/58

Elements

sinda “grey” ✧ PE17/72
nórë “land, country; †people, race, tribe” ✧ PE17/72 (nōre)
-ië¹ “abstract noun, adverb”

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