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'''''-dil''''' or '''''-ndil''''' is a [[Quenya]] suffix added to names to indicate friendship, love, or devotion to an object, idea, grouping, or spirit ([[Ainur]]).  Another form of this is ''-[[dur]]''.
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'''''-ndil, -nil, -dil''''' is a [[Quenya]] suffix added to names to indicate friendship, love, or devotion to an object, idea, grouping, course, occupation or spirit ([[Ainur]]) to which one is devoted for its own sake<ref>{{L|296}}</ref>
  
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Examples:
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==Etymology==
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* [[Eärendil the Mariner|Eärendil]] = "Devoted to the [[Belegaer|Sea]]"
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From the longer form -(n)dildo<ref>{{VT|46}}, p.4</ref>, from [[Sundocarmë|Root]] [[NIL]]/[[NDIL]].<ref>{{LR|Etymologies}}, '''NIL/NDIL'''</ref>
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* [[Elendil]] = "Devoted to the [[Stars]]"
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* [[Valandil]] = "Devoted to the [[Valar]]"
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== References ==
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''[[nildo]]'' means "friend".
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* ''[[The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth]]'' by [[Ruth S. Noel]]
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* [http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/qlist.htm Quenya Corpus Wordlist] edited by [[Helge Kåre Fauskanger]]
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==Examples==
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* [[Eärendil]]/[[Eärnil]] = "Devoted to the [[Belegaer|Sea]]"
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*[[Tar-Amandil|Amandil]] = "Friend of [[Aman]]"
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* [[Ornendil]] = "Friend of the [[Trees]]"
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* [[Valandil]] = "Devoted to the [[Valar]]"
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* [[Elendil]] = "Friend of the stars", also understood as "[[Elf-friend]]"
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* *[[Vardilme]] = Possibly female form meaning "Friend of [[Varda]]"
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* It also appears in [[Sindarin]] ''[[Edennil]]'' (adan) and ''[[Enerdhil]]'' (anar)
  
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==See also==
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*''[[nildo]]''
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*''[[-ndur]]''
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[[Category:Quenya suffixes]]

Latest revision as of 18:21, 21 October 2012

-ndil, -nil, -dil is a Quenya suffix added to names to indicate friendship, love, or devotion to an object, idea, grouping, course, occupation or spirit (Ainur) to which one is devoted for its own sake[1]

[edit] Etymology

From the longer form -(n)dildo[2], from Root NIL/NDIL.[3]

nildo means "friend".

[edit] Examples

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 296, (dated 21 July 1967)
  2. ↑ Vinyar Tengwar, Number 46, July 2004, p.4
  3. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Part Three: The Etymologies", NIL/NDIL
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