N. Tindobel loc. “Twilit City, Starlit City”
Earliest name of Barad Nimras in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (SM/331; LR/129, 265). It appeared in The Etymologies with the gloss “Twilit City, Starlit City”, a combination of tinnu “twilight” and the lenited form of gobel “town” (Ety/PEL(ES), TIN).
See S. Barad Nimras for further discussion.
References ✧ Ety/PEL(ES), TIN; EtyAC/TIN; LR/270; LRI; SMI; WJI/Ingildon, Tindobel
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| tinnu | “(starry) twilight, dusk, early night (without moon)” | ✧ Ety/TIN | |
| gobel | “walled house or village, town” | soft-mutation | ✧ Ety/PEL(ES) |
| ᴹ√TIN | “sparkle, emit slender (silver pale) beams” | ✧ Ety/PEL(ES) | |
| ᴹ√PEL(ES) | “revolve on fixed point” | ✧ Ety/TIN | |