N. Eithel Nínui loc. “Fountain of Tinúviel”

N. Eithel Nínui, loc. “Fountain of Tinúviel”

From a passage inadvertently omitted from the published version of The Silmarillion (LR/301), this name is a combination of eithel “fountain” and nínui, apparently an adjective meaning “*tearful”.

References ✧ LR/301; LRI/Eithel Nínui

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Elements

eithel “issue of water, spring, well, fountain” ✧ LR/301
nínui “*tearful” ✧ LR/301