ᴹQ. Ilkorin (Ilkorind-) pn. “Not of Kôr”
In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, this was the name of the Elves who remained in Beleriand, so called because they never came to Kôr (SM/85, LR/171). It was a combination of the negative suffix il- with the name of the city Kôr (Ety/AR², LA).
Conceptual Development: In the earliest Lost Tales, the term Ilkorin was used for the whole of Elven-kind who did not travel to Valinor (LT1/196), equivalent to the later terms ᴹQ. Lembi and Q. Avari, though in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, Tolkien at first used the term Teleatka or Teleakta as the name of their language (QL/32, 39). By the time of the Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, this term referred only to the folk of Thingol in Beleriand (LR/171, 181). In Tolkien’s later writing, the Elves of Beleriand became the Sindarin.
References ✧ Ety/AR², LA; EtyAC/LA; LR/171, 181, 215; LRI/Ilkorin, Ilkorindi; MRI/Ilkorindi; PE18/26; PE21/33, 36; SM/85; SMI; TII; WJI/Ilkorins
Glosses
Variations
Related
Changes
Inflections
| ilkorindin | nominative plural | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| †ilkorindulin | nominative plural | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| Ilkorin | plural | ✧ LRI/Ilkorindi | |
| Ilkorindi | plural | ✧ LR/171; LR/181; SMI/Ilkorin; WJI/Ilkorins | |
| Ilkorindi | plural | “Never Dwelt in Kôr” | ✧ LR/215 |
| Ilkorindi | plural | “Elves Not of Kôr” | ✧ LRI/Ilkorindi |
| Ilkorindi | plural | “Not of Kôr” | ✧ MRI/Ilkorindi |
| Ilkorindi | plural | “Elves that dwelt never in Côr” | ✧ SM/85 |
Elements
| il- | “no, not” | ✧ Ety/LA; EtyAC/LA (il) |
| Kôr | ||
| ? |
Cognates
ᴱQ. Ilkorin pn. “Not of Kôr”
References ✧ GL/32; LT1/196; LT1A/Ilkorin; LT1I; LT2I/Ilkorindi; PE14/9; QL/32; SM/13
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| Ilkorindi | plural | ✧ GL/32; PE14/9 | |
| Ilkorindi | plural | “Not of Kôr” | ✧ LT2I/Ilkorindi |
| Ilkorindi | plural | “Elves who never dwelt in Côr at Valinor” | ✧ SM/13 |
Elements
| il- | “un-; negative prefix” | ✧ LT1A/Ilkorin |
| Kôr | ✧ LT1A/Ilkorin |
Cognates
ᴱQ. Teleatka pn.
References ✧ QL/32, 39
Variations
Changes
Elements
| akta | “notion” |
ᴹQ. Alkorin pn.
A rejected variant of Ilkorin appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s, using the prefix al(a)- “not” instead of il- (EtyAC/ALA, LA).
See ᴹQ. Ilkorin for further discussion.
References ✧ EtyAC/ALA, LA; LRI; PE18/26
Elements
| al(a)- | “not, negative prefix” | ✧ EtyAC/ALA (al(a)); EtyAC/LA (al-) |
| Kôr | ||
| ? |
Cognates