Kalaventл See Galmir, Glorvent.
Kalormл This appears in QL among the derivatives of root KALA (see Galmir), with the meaning ‘hill-crest over which the Sun rises’. ormл="summit," crest’, from a root ORO with apparently a base sense of ‘rise’: or ‘on’, oro ‘hill’, oro- ‘rise’, orto- ‘raise’, oronta ‘steep’, orosta ‘ascension’, etc.; Gnomish or ‘on, onto, on top’, orod, ort ‘mountain’, orm ‘hill-top’, oros, orost- ‘rising’. Cf. Oromл, Orossi, Tavrobel.
Kapalinda (The source of the river in the place of the banishment of the Noldoli in Valinor, p. 157.) QL has kapalinda ‘spring of water’ among derivatives of root KAPA ‘leap, spring’ linda is obscure.
Kaukareldar Under the root KAWA ‘stoop’ in QL are derivations kauka ‘crooked, bent, humped’, kauko ‘humpback’, kawin ‘I bow’, kaurл ‘fear’, kaurлa ‘timid’.
Kelusindi (The river in the place of the banishment of the Noldoli in Valinor, p. 157; in the text called Sirnъmen.) In QL under root KELE, KELU ‘flow, trickle, ooze’ are given many derivatives including kelusindi ‘a river’, also kelu, kelumл ‘stream’, kektelл ‘fountain’ (also in the form ektelл), etc. For -sindi see Sirion.
Kйmi QL gives kemi ‘earth, soil, land’ and kemen ‘soil’, from root KEME. The Gnomish name is Cнmir, which="Q." Kйmi ‘Mother Earth’. There is also a Gnomish word grosgen ‘soil’ in which -gen is said to="Q." kйmi.
Koiviл-nйni ‘Waters of Awakening.’ In QL under root KOYO ‘have life’ are derivatives koi, koirл ‘life’, koitл ‘living being’, koina, koirлa ‘alive’, koiva ‘awake’, koiviл ‘awakening’. In GL are cuil ‘life’, cuith ‘life, living body’, etc.; cwiv- ‘be awake’, cwivra- ‘awaken’, cuivros ‘awakening’: Nenin a Gwivros ‘Waters of Awakening’. For -nйni, Nenin see Neni Erъmлar.
Kуpas QL has kуpa ‘harbour’, the only word given under root KOPO ‘keep, guard’. GL has gobos ‘haven’, with a reference to Q. kуpa, kуpas; also gob ‘hollow of hand’, gobli ‘dell’.
Kфr In QL this name is given under the root KORO ‘revere?’, with the note ‘the ancient town built above the rocks of Eldamar, whence the fairies marched into the world’ also placed here are korda ‘temple’, kordon ‘idol’. The Gnomish form is here given as Cфr, but in GL Cфr (‘the hill of the fairies and the town thereon near the shores of the Bay of Faлry’) was replaced by Gwвr, Goros ‘="Q." Kфr the town on the round hill’. This interpretation of the name Kфr clearly replaces that in QL, which belongs with the earliest layer of entries. See further under korin.
korin See Kфr. In QL there is a second root KORO (i.e. distinct from that which gave Kфr); this has the meaning ‘be round, roll’, and has such derivatives as korima ‘round’, kornл ‘loaf’, also korin ‘a circular enclosure, especially on a hill-top’. At the same time as Cфr was replaced by Gwвr, Goros in GL the word gorin (gwarin) ‘circle of trees, ="=Q." korin’ was entered, and all these forms derive from the same root (gwas- or gor- < guor="Q." kor-), which would seem to signify ‘roundness’ so in the tale of The Coming of the Elves ‘the Gods named that hill Kфr by reason of its roundness and its smoothness’ (p. 122).
Koromas A separate and early entry in QL defines Kormas (the form in the text before emendation to Koromas, p. 22) thus: ‘the new capital of the fairies after their retreat from the hostile world to Tol Eressлa, now Inwinуrл. It was named in m1emory of Kфr and because of its great tower was called also Kortirion.’ For -mas see Eldamar.
Kortirion The word tirion ‘a mighty tower, a city on a hill’ is given in QL under root TIRI ‘stick up’, with tinda ‘spike’, tirin ‘tall tower’, tirios ‘a town with walls and towers’. There is also another root TIRI, differing in the nature of the medial consonant, with meaning ‘watch, guard, keep; look at, observe’, whence tiris ‘watch, vigil’, etc. In GL are tir- ‘look out for, await’, tirin (poetic form tirion) ‘watch-tower, turret’, Tirimbrithla ‘the Tower of Pearl’ (see Silmarilli).
Kosomot Son of Melko (see p. 93). With a different second element, Kosomoko, this name is found in QL under root MOKO ‘hate’ (mokir ‘I hate’), and the corresponding Gnomish form is there said to be Gothmog. The first element is from root KOSO ‘strive’, in Gnomish goth ‘war, strife’, with many derivative words.
Kulullin This name is not among the derivatives of KULU ‘gold’ in QL, nor does it appear with the Gnomish words (mostly names of the Sun) containing culu in GL. For the meaning of culu in Gnomish see Ilsaluntл.
Laisi See Tбri-Laisi.
Laurelin QL has laurл ‘gold (much the same as kulu)’, laurina ‘golden’. laurл is the final l of tilkal (p. 100, where it is said to be the ‘magic’ name of gold, as ilsa of silver). The Gnomish words are glфr ‘gold’, glфrin, glфriol ‘golden’, but GL gives no names of the Golden Tree. Cf. Brбglorin, Glorvent.
limpлlimpл ‘drink of the fairies’ is given in QL under root LIPI, with lipte- ‘to drip’, liptл ‘a little drop’, lipil ‘little glass’. Corresponding forms in GL are limp or limpelis ‘the drink of the fairies’, lib- ‘to drip’, lib ‘a drop’, libli ‘small glass’.
Lindeloksл At one occurrence in the texts an emendation from Lindeloktл and itself emended to Lindelos (p. 22), at others an emendation from Lindelуtл and itself allowed to stand (p. 79, 131). See Lindelos.
LindelosLinde- is one of many derivatives from the root LIRI ‘sing’, as lin ‘melody’, lindelл ‘song, music’, lindelлa ‘melodious’, lirit ‘poem’, lirilla ‘lay, song’ (cf. Rъmil’s tirнpti lirilla, p. 47), and the name of the Vala Lirillo. GL has lir- ‘sing’ and glоr ‘song, poem’. Lindelos is not given in QL, which has the name rejected in the text Lindeloktл (p. 22), here translated ‘singing cluster, laburnum’.
Loktл ‘blossom (of flowers in bunches or clusters)’ is derived from a root LOHO, with lokta- ‘sprout, put forth leaves or flowers’. This is said to be an extended form of root OLO ‘tip’, whence1 olл ‘three’, olma ‘nine’, уlemл ‘elbow’. Another extended form of this root is LO’O, from which are derived lуtл ‘a flower’ (and -lot ‘the common form in compounds’) and many other words; cf. Lindelуtл, another rejected name of the Golden Tree (p. 79, 131), Wingilot. For Gnomish words see Gar Lossion. No Gnomish name of the Golden Tree is found in GL, but it was in fact Glingol (which originally appeared in the text, see p. 22); GL has glin ‘sound, voice, utterance’ (also lin ‘sound’), with the note that -glin, -grin is a suffix in the names of languages, as Goldogrin Gnomish.