A term for the most vigorous period life of an Elf’s life, roughly the first 10,000 years of adulthood, after which an Elf entered “middle age” with (very) slowly waning strength and a loss in interest in child-bearing (NM/85). Tolkien translated this word as “youth”, but it actually refers more to “*young adulthood”. A more general term for “youth” (including childhood) is vínë.