S. sigil n. “necklace” (Category: Necklace)
A word for “necklace” in the name Sigil Elu-naeth “Necklace of the Woe of Thingol” in Silmarillion notes from the late 1950s (WJ/258).
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. fring “carcanet, necklace” (GL/59), an element in the early name G. Nauglafring “Necklace of the Dwarves” (LT2/221). ᴱN. fring “necklace” reappeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/143), but in Silmarillion drafts of the 1930s the “Necklace of the Dwarves” was renamed to Nauglamír (SM/135), a name it retained thereafter (S/114). The element mîr in the later name means “jewel” (Ety/MIR; LotR/1115), and Tolkien coined a new word sigil for “necklace” in the 1950s, as noted above.
Reference ✧ WJ/258 ✧ Sigil “necklace”
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ᴱN. fring n. “necklace” (Category: Necklace)
Reference ✧ PE13/143 ✧ “necklace”
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G. fring n. “necklace, carcanet” (Category: Necklace)
References ✧ GL/36; LT2A/Nauglafring; PE15/15
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