Laurelin

2024-09-05T00:15:15Z

Ungoliant: /* History */ clarified what came before Laurelin

{{object infobox
| name=Laurelin
| image = Ralph Damiani - Laurelin.jpg
| caption="Laurelin" by Ralph Damiani
| pronun={{respell|low|re-lin}}
| othernames=''Tulukhedelgorūs'' ([[Valarin|V]])
| location=[[Ezellohar]]
| owner=
| type=Tree/source of light
| appearance=Gold-trimmed leaves
| creator=[[Yavanna]]
| created=V.Y. 3450–3500
| createdlocation=
| destroyer=[[Morgoth|Melkor]] and [[Ungoliant]]
| destroyed={{YT|1495}}
| destroyedlocation=
| notablefor=
}}
'''Laurelin''' was the '''Golden Tree''' of [[Aman]], the female mate of [[Telperion]], and the younger of the [[Two Trees of Valinor]]. Laurelin had gold-trimmed leaves and her dew was collected by [[Varda]] in [[Wells of Varda|her Wells]].<ref name="BegDays" />

==History==
Laurelin was created by the [[Valar|Vala]] [[Yavanna]] and [[Nienna]] on the hill of [[Ezellohar]] where she shed their light on the realm of the [[Valar]] in the long years before the making of the [[Sun]] and [[Moon]]. Laurelin, the younger of the two, flowered second, after [[Telperion]], and bloomed during the latter part of each Valian day.<ref name="BegDays">{{S|1}}</ref>
[[Image:Daniel Govar - Laurelin.jpg|left|thumb|''Laurelin'' by [[Daniel Govar]]]]

She was destroyed by [[Morgoth|Melkor]], who used the giant spider spirit [[Ungoliant]] to his evil purpose during the theft of the [[Silmarils]], which caused the [[Darkening of Valinor]].<ref>{{S|8}}</ref> Through the power of Nienna and Yavanna, though, Laurelin produced a single fiery fruit before she died. This golden fire was set in a vessel made by [[Aulë]] and his people, and steered into the sky by the [[Maiar|Maia]] [[Arien]], making the [[Sun]].<ref name="OfSun">{{S|11}}</ref>

In the [[First Age]], [[Turgon]] made images of the Two Trees that stood in his court of [[Gondolin]], and the one made in memory of Laurelin was [[Glingal]].<ref>{{S|15}}</ref>

==Etymology==
''Laurelin'' is said to mean "Song of Gold".<ref name="SI" /> The name ''Laurelin'' appears to be [[Quenya]] and contains ''[[laurë]]'' ("gold") and ''[[lind]]ë'' ("song").<ref name="SI" /><ref name="Ety">{{LR|Etymologies}}, pp. 358, 368</ref>

==Other names==
Other names for Laurelin were:

'''''Culúrien''''', contains the [[Elvish]] elements ''[[KUL|cul-]]'' ("golden-red"),<ref>{{S|Appendix}}, entry ''cul-''</ref> and ''úr'' ("fire, heat"), while the suffix is uncertain.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=http://www.quicksilver899.com/Tolkien/SILM/SILM_CE.html|articlename=Silmarillion Dictionary C-E|author=Robert Ireland|website=[http://www.quicksilver899.com/Tolkien/Tolkien_Dictionary.html A Tolkien Dictionary]|accessed=20 August 2020}}</ref>

'''''Malinalda''''' ("Tree of Gold"),<ref name="SI">{{S|Index}}</ref> composed of the words ''malina'' ("yellow, of golden colour") + ''[[alda]]'' ("tree").<ref>{{S|Appendix}}, entries ''alda'', ''[[mal-]]''</ref><ref>{{webcite|author=Paul Strack|articleurl=http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-3600949199.html|articlename=Q. ''Malinalda'' pn.|website=Eldamo|accessed=30 June 2020}}</ref>

In [[The Later Quenta Silmarillion|The Later ''Quenta Silmarillion'']] manuscript, the Sindarin name of Laurelin is '''''Galadlóriel'''''. In a footnote to the same page three other Sindarin names of Laurelin are given: '''''Glewellin''''' ("song of gold", the same as Laurelin), '''''Lasgalen''''' ("green of leaf"<ref>Cf. also ''[[Eryn Lasgalen]]'', "Wood of Greenleaves".</ref>), '''''Melthinorn''''' ("tree of gold").<ref>{{MR|P3I2}}, p. 155</ref>

The [[Valarin]] name of Laurelin was '''''Tulukhedelgorūs'''''.<ref>{{WJ|AD1}}, p. 401</ref>

==Other versions of the legendarium==
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[[Vána]] named the tree '''''Lindeloksë''''' ("singing cluster").<ref>{{LT1|III}}, p. 72</ref>

Other of the early names of Laurelin was ''Glingal'' ([[Noldorin]], emmended from ''Glingol''), which was later used for the [[Glingal|golden tree of Gondolin]].<ref>{{LB|1d}}, pp. 80-81</ref>

==Inspiration==
On a note referred to Laurelin's ''spilth'', [[Tolkien]] explains it is meant to indicate that the tree is founded on the [[:Wikipedia:Laburnum|laburnum]] as described by [[Francis Thompson]] in a poem:<ref>{{MR|P3I2}}, p. 157-158</ref>
{{blockquote|Mark yonder, how the long laburnum drips its jocund spilth of fire, its honey of wild flame!|''[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1731/1731-h/1731-h.htm Sister Songs]'', "The Proem"}}

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Telperion

2024-09-05T00:12:00Z

Ungoliant: made the first part of the history section more closely resemble Laurelin

{{disambig-more|White Tree|[[White Tree (disambiguation)]]}}
{{object infobox
| name=Telperion
| image = Ralph Damiani - Telperion.jpg
| caption="Telperion" by [[:Category:Images by Ralph Damiani|Ralph Damiani]]
| pronun={{respell|tel|pair|ee-on}}
| othernames=''Ibrīniðilpathānezel'' ([[Valarin|V]])
| location=[[Ezellohar]]
| owner=
| type=Tree/source of light
| appearance=Leaves of dark green, shining silver beneath; boughs decked with brilliant flowers that shed a rain of silver dew
| creator=[[Yavanna]]
| created=V.Y. 3450–3500
| createdlocation=
| destroyer=[[Morgoth|Melkor]] and [[Ungoliant]]
| destroyed={{YT|1495}}
| destroyedlocation=
| notablefor=
}}
'''Telperion''' was the elder of the [[Two Trees of Valinor]], called the '''White Tree''', which shed silver light on the domain of the [[Valar]]. His leaves were of dark green, shining silver beneath, and his boughs were decked with brilliant flowers that shed a rain of silver dew, which was collected as a source of water and of light.<ref name=Days>{{S|Days}}</ref>

==History==
Telperion was the elder of the Two Trees, and created by the [[Vala]] [[Yavanna]]. It bloomed during the first part of the Valian day, followed by [[Laurelin]]. It endured throughout the [[Years of the Trees]], but came to an end in the dreadful [[Darkening of Valinor]].

However one of Telperion's flowers survived the Darkening, and was set aloft by the Valar; this was the light of the [[Moon]], carried by [[Tilion]] the [[Maia]].<ref>{{S|11}}</ref>

In the [[First Age]], [[Turgon]] made images of the Two Trees that stood in his court of [[Gondolin]], and the one made in memory of Telperion was [[Belthil]].<ref>{{S|15}}</ref>

===Telperion's descendants===
Even though the elder tree did not survive, he was not the last of the White Trees. Because the Elves that first came to Valinor especially loved Telperion, Yavanna made a second tree like it to stand in the city of [[Tirion]] where the [[Vanyar]] and [[Noldor]] dwelt together at first. This tree, named ''[[Galathilion]]'', was identical to Telperion except that it gave no light of its own. It had many seedlings, one of which was [[Celeborn (White Tree)|Celeborn]] on the isle of [[Tol Eressëa]].<ref>{{S|5}}</ref>

In the [[Second Age]], a seedling of Celeborn was brought as a gift to the [[Númenoreans]] — that was [[Nimloth of Númenor|Nimloth]], the White Tree of [[Númenor]]. It lasted through the vast majority of the realm's duration, but when [[Sauron]] took control of the island he had king [[Ar-Pharazôn]] chop it down. Fortunately, [[Isildur]] managed to save a single fruit of that tree. Of this fruit later came the [[White Tree of Gondor]].<ref>{{S|Akallabeth}}</ref>

==Etymology==
''Telperion'' comes from the root ''[[telepi]]''/''[[telpë]]'' ("silver").<ref>{{S|Appendix}} ''celeb-''</ref> The exact etymology of the ending ''-rion'' is not clear. Latter elements may include ''[[rî]]'' ("garland, wreath"),<ref>{{S|Appendix}}kal-</ref> and/or ''ere'' ("the one" or "first")<ref>{{webcite|website=[https://eldamo.org Eldamo]|articleurl=https://eldamo.org/content/words/word-3983103205.html|articlename=ereb|accessed=20 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{webcite|website=[https://eldamo.org Eldamo]|articleurl=https://eldamo.org/content/words/word-3981134445.html|articlename=ereg|accessed=20 August 2020}}</ref> along with the suffix ''-on'' or ''-ion''.

The [[Quenya]] form was actually ''Tyelperion'' but Quenya adopted ''[[telpë]]'' from [[Telerin]].<ref>{{UT|6e}}, p. 266</ref>

==Other names==
Another [[Quenya]] name for Telperion was '''''Silpion'''''.<ref>{{MR|P2c}}, p. 59 (commentary to §5)</ref> It is derived from the root [[SIL]] (shine (with white or silver light))"<ref>{{S|Appendix}}, ''sil-''</ref> or from the extended root [[SILIP]],<ref name="SILIP">{{LR|Etymologies}}, entry "SIL"</ref> and the suffix ''-ion''.<ref>https://eldamo.org/content/words/word-4167656007.html?neo</ref> It was sometimes glossed the "White Tree of Valinor",<ref name="SILIP"/> or simply the "White Tree".

'''''Ninquelótë''''' was a [[Quenya]] title of Telperion.<ref name=Days/> ''Ninquelótë'' means "White Flower" or (perhaps more likely in this context) "White Blossom". The [[Sindarin]] equivalent of this Quenya name was ''[[Nimloth of Númenor|Nimloth]]'', and indeed that name was inherited by the White Tree that grew in the [[King's Court]] of [[Númenor]].

'''''Ibrīniðilpathānezel''''' was the name in [[Valarin]] of Telperion.<ref>{{WJ|AD1}}, p. 401</ref>

In early writings of [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] Telperion's names were '''''Silpion''''', '''''Bansil''''' and '''''Belthil'''''.{{fact}}

==Genealogy==
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==See also==
*[[Silmo]]

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[[Category:Telerin names]]
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