Compiler’s Note
SMALL CAPITALS have been used to indicate lines of further research within this Companion. Italics are merely intended to emphasise a word’s linguistic qualities. References to works in the Tolkien canon are generally found in the form of notes at the end of each letter of the alphabet (chapter). Because of the difficulties in reconciling the many different paginations of The Lord of the Rings, most references to this work are by Book, Chapter and Appendix. Abbreviated references to other books by Tolkien are as follows:
Hobbit |
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The Hobbit |
LT II |
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The Book of Lost Tales 2 |
MR |
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Morgoth’s Ring |
PME |
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The Peoples of Middle-earth |
Silmarillion |
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The Silmarillion |
UT |
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Unfinished Tales |
WJ |
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The War of the Jewels |
The only other abbreviations used are for the various languages of Middle-earth. These are as follows:
Adûn. |
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Adûnaic, the earliest speech of Western Men. |
Khuz. |
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Khuzdul, the secret ancestral tongue of the Dwarves. |
Q. |
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Quenya, the High-elven tongue. |
Sind. |
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The Sindarin or Grey-elven tongue. |
Since nearly all of the Kings of Númenor took royal names beginning with either Tar- or Ar-, to avoid clustering these individuals into (at most) two locations, I have alphabetised them under the main parts of their names, e.g. Amandil (Tar-Amandil) or Pharazôn (Ar-Pharazôn).