Yale – A village of the Eastfarthing. It stood between Whitfurrows and the Stock-Tuckborough road.

Yanta – The Quenya or High-elven word for ‘bridge’; also the title of Tengwa number 35, which represented the sound of consonantal y in most languages, e in the Mode of Beleriand.

Yavanna Kementári – One of the great Valier (Valar Queens), the elder sister of Vana and spouse of Aulë the Smith. In the lore of the Elves she is accounted second only in might to Varda (Elbereth). Her powers are directly connected with growth and life, and it is said that she made the first kelvar and olvar (fauna and flora) in Middle-earth (at her prayer the race of Onodrim, or ENTS, was created by Ilúvatar, to protect from harm the trees of Middle-earth which were her especial love). But her most renowned accomplishment was the making of the fabled Two Trees, Telperion and Laurelin. Yavanna (Q.) means ‘Giver of Fruits’; her secondary title Kementári is translated as ‘Queen of the Earth’.

Yavannamirë – One of the FRAGRANT TREES of Númenor.

Yavannië (Q.) – The ninth month of Kings’ Reckoning, equivalent to our September. Unlike the Númenoreans, the Dúnedain of Middle-earth used instead the Sindarin equivalent Ivanneth.

Yávië ‘Autumn’ (Q.) – The name given (by the Elves) to the third of their six seasons, and (by Men) to the third of their four. In the Elvish calendar this season was of fixed length (54 days), but in Kings’ Reckoning was used in an approximate form. Both the Grey-elves and the Dúnedain of Middle-earth (who largely abandoned the Quenya names) used instead the Sindarin equivalent iavas.

Yavierë ‘Autumn-day’ (Q.) – The name given in Gondor to one of the five ‘extra’ days in the Stewards’ Reckoning calendar-system. Yavierë fell between Yavannië (September) and Narquelië (October) and heralded the advent of autumn. It was accordingly a holiday in Gondor.

Year-book of Tuckborough – See YELLOWSKIN.

Year of Lamentation – A name among Elves and Men of the First Age for the Year of the Sun 470: the year of the NIRNAETH ARNOEDIAD.

Years of the Sun – See FIRST AGE.

Years of the Trees – See FIRST AGE.

Yellowskin – The Year-book of Tuckborough, a large bound volume containing the Annals of the Took clan, begun in Tuckborough in about 400 Shire Reckoning (2000 Third Age), long before the building of Great Smials or the passing of the Thainship from the Oldbucks to the Tooks. It was accordingly the most ancient text preserved in the Shire, and many of its dates were incorporated into the Red Book of Westmarch. The Tooks undoubtedly had a certain reputation concerning the accurate compilation of chronologies (see THE TALE OF YEARS).

Yén ‘Long-year’ (Q.) – The ‘true’ Elvish year, equal to 144 coranar (solar years). See also CALENDAR OF IMLADRIS.

Yestarë (Q.) – The name given by both the Elves and the Dúnedain (of Númenor) to the first day of the year, which in all calendar systems was accounted separately from the rest of the months or seasons.

Yôzâyan ‘Land of Gift’ (Adûn.) – The native Númenorean name for their own land.

Yuledays – The first and last days in the Hobbits’ year. The Shire-folk accounted them separate from all the months (like the Lithe midsummer period).

Yulemath – The Bree-name for the Shire-month of Foreyule (December).

Yuletide – An ancient holiday-period or festival celebrated by Northern Men and adopted by the Hobbits during the early years of the Third Age. They continued to observe this six-day festival even after they had settled the Shire, much later in the Age, and by the time of the War of the Ring the period had been fixed to fall between 29th Foreyule (December) and 2nd Afteryule (January), with, of course, the two Yuledays in between.

Ywalmë – See NWALMË.