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<N> NAIL (prob. noun) taxe -TAK NAKED helda -SKEL NAME (noun) esse (pl. essi is attested. Note: the word esse was also used in the sense "person as a whole", body and soul.) AFTER-NAME epesse (i.e., "a nickname - mostly given as a title of admiration or honour"); MOTHER-NAME (OF INSIGHT) #amilesse (tercenya) (i.e. names given by Elvish mothers to their children, indicating some dominant feature of the nature of the child as perceived by its mother. Only pl amilessi tercenye is attested.) NAME OF INSIGHT #esse tercenya (i.e., the same as "mother-name"; only pl essi tercenye is attested); GIVEN (OR ADDED) NAME anesse (pl anessi is attested. This word encompasses both "after-names" and "mother-names".) NAME-MAKING Essecarme (an Eldarin seremony in which the father of a child announces its name), NAME-CHOOSING Essecilme (an Eldarin seremony in which a person chooses a name according to his or her personal lamatyave or sound-taste); SELF-NAME #cilmesse (only pl. cilmessi is attested, said to mean more literally "names of personal choice": #cilme "choice" + essi "names". PM:339 explains that "some among the exiles gave themselves names, as disguises or in reference to their own deeds and personal history: such names were called kilmessi 'self-names'.") -ES/LotR:1157/MR:216, UT:266, MR:217, 214 NARRATOR quentaro -KWET NARROW arca, lenwa (long and thin, straight) NARROW NECK yatta (isthmus); NARROW PATH axa; NARROW PROMONTORY nehte (spear-head, gore, wedge) -AK, LT2:341, YAK, UT:282 NASAL nengwea -NEN-WI NATION nore, -nor (land, country, dwelling-place, native land, family) -LT1:272 NATIVE LAND nore, -nor (land, country, dwelling-place, nation, family) -LT1:272 NAZGUL Ulairi (Ring-wraiths) (pl; sg #Ulaire?) -Silm:362, 417 NEAR har, hare -LT1:253 NECK yat (yaht-); NARROW NECK yatta (isthmus) -YAK NECKLACE firinga (carnanet) -LT2:346, GL:36 NECTAR miruvore (meed, drink of the Valar) -Nam, RGEO:66, LT1:260 NEED (prob. noun) maure -MBAW NEPTUNE Nenar (or less probably Luinil; it is not known for certain which of the two is Neptune and which is Uranus) -Basic Quenya:24, Silm:55 NET natse (web) -NAT NEW vinya (cf. Vinyamar "New Dwelling", Vinyalonde "New Haven"), sinya. NEW LIFE laito, laisi (vigour, youth) -Silm:425, UT:471, SIN, LT1:267 NEXT ento -Arct NICKNAME ("mostly given as a title of admiration or honour") epesse (after-name) -UT:266 NIGHT lome, ("Night, night-time, [shades of night]", in LT1:255 glossed "dusk, gloom, darkness"), Fui, Hui ("Night" - in LT1:253, hui is glossed "fog, dark, murk, night"), lo ("night, a night"), more (blackness, dark - obsoleting mori in LT1:260). In Valinorean usage, lome "has no evil connotations; it is a word of peace and beauty and has none of the associations of fear and groping that, say, 'dark' has to us. For the evil sense I [Tolkien's character Lowdham] do not know the [Quenya] word". For "night" in the "evil sense", more seems to be the best candidate. Yet lome evidently developed darker connotations among the Exiles, for when crying auta i lome "the night is passing" before the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, the Noldor used the word metaphorically to mean the rule of Morgoth. -DO3, PHUY, SD:306, Silm:229 NIGHTINGALE lomelinde (pl lomelindi is attested; Etym also has morilinde), tindomerel ("daughter of twilight", a kenning of or a poetic name for the nightingale; the Sindarin equivalent is tinuviel. Tolkien changed the meaning of the final element from "daughter" to "child", see SEL-D-.) -DO3, Silm:64, MOR, TIN/Silm:422, 438 NINE nerte (obsoleting olma in LT1:258) -NETER NO la (also meaning "not". La is probably used to deny facts, or what others present as facts. In some contexts, the interjection va is to be preferred. It is derived from a stem that "expressed refusal to do what others might wish or urge, or prohibition of some action by others.) Cf also lala, lau, laume "no, no indeed not, on the contrary; also used for asking incredulous questions". Prefixes "no-, un-": u-, il-. SAY NO vaquet- (forbid, refuse) (1. pers. sg aorist and past vaquetin, vaquenten are given), ava- (refuse) (pa.t. avane is given; this verb was "little used in ordinary language"). -LA, WJ:371 cf. 370, GU, WJ:370, KWET NO LONGER TO BE HAD vanwa (gone, dead, departed, lost, past, vanished) -WJ:366 NOBLE (a noble:) arquen The element #ar- in Arfanyarasse (a name of Taniquetil) is said to mean "high (i.e., noble, revered). Arquen is simply #ar "noble" + quen "person". NOBLE WOMAN (one of Galadriel's names) Artanis. -WJ:372, WJ:416, PM:347 NOGROD Navarot (Hollowbold, Novrod) -WJ:389 NOISE ran, roaring noise rave (pl. probably *raver not *ravi, compare the similar formation tyave "taste" pl. tyaver); (noise of a) storm raumo -LT1:259, MC:223 NOLDORIN Noldorin (= the language of the Noldor), Noldorinwa (= general adjective) -WJ:20, LR:201 NOMAN Uner -UT:211 NORMAL sanya (?) (regular, law-abiding) -STAN NORTH Formen, forte (right); NORTHERN formenya; NORTHLANDS (a region in Numenor) Forostar -PHOR, LotR:1157, UT:165, 439 NOSE nengwe, mundo (snout, cape) (Note: the latter word also means "ox") -NEN-WI, MBUD NOT la; NO INDEED NOT lala; DON'T ava, ava; DON'T DO IT! ava care!; I WILL NOT: va (exclamation, also = Do not!); avan, van, vanye "I won't", avamme, vamme "we won't"; NOT COUNTING hequa (leaving aside, excluding, except), NOT TO BE SAID, THAT MUST NOT BE SAID avaquetima, NOT TO BE TOLD OR RELATED avanyarima -LA, WJ:371, 364/365, WJ:370 NOVEMBER Hisime -LotR:1144 NOVROD Navarot (Hollowbold, Nogrod) -WJ:389 NOW si, sin/sin (the latter form is evidently used when the next word has an initial vowel; cf. the distribution of "a" and "an" in English.) -SI, cf. LR:47 NUMBER note, LARGE NUMBER hosta, IN A VERY GREAT NUMBER uvea; NUMBERLESS unotime (uncountable) -NOT, KHOTH, UB, Nam NUMEROUS rimba (frequent) NYMPH wingil, wingild- (pl WIngildi is attested); falmar, falmarin (falmarind-). (Writers should use falmarin rather than falmar, thus avoiding any possible confusion with falmar "waves".) -WIG/LT1:273, PHAL
