Sindarin
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Sep 9, 2026
Alan SistoHOST
So let's move on to the third word, and this one will turn up twice this week in two different languages, lond, L-O-N-D, and londë.
Alan SistoHOST
Now, Sindarin lond, sometimes lon with two Ns, is a haven, a harbor, a sheltered landing.
Alan SistoHOST
Quenya has the same word, it just appears as londë.
Alan SistoHOST
And once you've got it, well, you start seeing it everywhere.
Alan SistoHOST
I do think we talked about this on Middle-earth Map Monday, but this is Word Nerd Wednesday.
Alan SistoHOST
Let's talk more about the words.
Alan SistoHOST
Pel is a Sindarin element for going round or encircling or fencing about, and the Pelennor fields are the townlands of Minas Tirith inside the Rammas Echor, the encircling wall.
Alan SistoHOST
And that makes three out of four weeks where we have found a great place named after the fact that somebody just put a wall around it.
JohnHOST
The sound of the hymn is described as being like mingled song and laughter.
JohnHOST
Furthermore, even though it is sung in Sindarin, it is noted that the sound blending with the melody seems to shape itself in the hobbit's thought into words which they only partly understood.
JohnHOST
Of the hobbits involved here, Frodo, Sam, and Pippin, only Frodo has even a passing familiarity with Sindarin, yet somehow the musical nature of the sound is able to communicate to them an understanding of what is being sung.
JohnHOST
There seems to be a preternatural power to this song.
JohnHOST
The hymn is dedicated to Varda, Elbereth, one of the Ainur, and the spouse of Manwe.
JohnHOST
Indeed, for Legolas, it's something of a prophecy, foretelling his final mysterious journey over the great sea, presumably into the Blessed Realm.
JohnHOST
Of course, it also opens up much of Legolas' identity to us.
JohnHOST
While he is indeed the son of Thranduil and therefore a prince of the woodland elves, he is also of Sindarin descent, and therefore a cousin of the Teleri.
Dave WalshSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And so when you asked is Manel or Manel, a word that means air, I immediately was like, Oh my gosh, that makes so much sense because Manel door is an Eagle who is named in the game.
Dave WalshSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And, I looked it up, and sure enough, the root Menel, both in Quenya and Sindarin, does mean air or the area above Arda.
Dave WalshSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And so that's why you have Meneltarma and Meneldor.
Dave WalshSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And the Meneldor that you were talking about was obviously this Numenorean.
speaker_5HOST
What's fascinating here is the sheer painstaking mechanics of what Tolkien was doing in his study.
speaker_5HOST
He created the Elvish languages, primarily Quenya and Sindarin, long before The Hobbit was ever published.
speaker_5HOST
He developed their phonology, their syntax, their vocabulary.
speaker_5HOST
But here is the genius step.
InsaniaHOST
And I literally think I put, like, about two seconds of thought into it.
CapHOST
Okay, so for those of you guys who are wondering what we're talking about, this weird Enigma reference that Aiden's talking about, the three of us, combined with Avery and Sindarin, were tasked by Valve.
CapHOST
So every year for TI, there is the rehearsal, and during the rehearsal, we actually go through a full test match.
CapHOST
And in the past, it has been Valve versus PGL, Valve employees versus PGL employees, and playing a 5v5 Dota game.
Alan SistoHOST
The Edain, Atani, were three peoples of men.
Alan SistoHOST
All right, Edain is Sindarin, with the singular Adan.
Alan SistoHOST
Atani is the Quenya, singular Atan.
Alan SistoHOST
The Silmarillion's own index gives you a very plain meaning, the second people.
Alan SistoHOST
Anyway, going back to Edain or Adan, that Adan, the singular of Edain, turns up in a good many places once you know to listen for it.
Alan SistoHOST
The Quenya Atan shows up in Atanatari, the Fathers of Men.
Alan SistoHOST
And then the Sindarin Adan shows up in one you'll recognize instantly, Dunedain.
Alan SistoHOST
Dun, West, plus Edain, Men of the West.
speaker_6HOST
His entire academic life was devoted to the history and development of languages.
speaker_6HOST
So he invented the Elvish languages first, like he created Quenya and Sindarin, and he designed them as living, historically diverging descendants of this root language he called primitive Quendian.
speaker_6HOST
It's
speaker_7HOST
just staggering to think about.
speaker_0HOST
Finrod made him his steward, and he succeeded him in Argothrond.
speaker_0HOST
His Sindarin name was Rodrith, altered to Oredrith because of his love of the mountains.
speaker_0HOST
His children were Findulias and Artanaro, or Rodnor, later called Gil-galad.
speaker_0HOST
Their mother was a Sindarin lady of the north.
speaker_0HOST
She called her son Gil-galad.
speaker_0HOST
Rodnor Gil-galad escaped the sacking of Nargothrond and eventually came to Sirion's mouth and was king of the Noldor there.
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