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Gnomish Lexicon (GL)

• J.R.R. Tolkien, (editors) Christopher Gilson, Patrick Wynne, Arden Smith, Carl Hostetter; written in 1917, first published in 1995 (PE11)

Tolkien’s earliest dictionary of the Welsh-like Elvish language that would eventually become Sindarin, though it was called Gnomish or Goldogrin at this early stage. Written in 1917, it was not published until 1995 in Parma Eldalamberon #11, though Christopher Tolkien cited considerable information from the dictionary in the Book of Lost Tales (LT1, LT2).

References are by the page numbering in PE11.

Needs review.