Word of the Day: Valinor – ‘land of the Gods’. After Almaren was destroyed by Melkor, the Valar moved there. It is more formerly known as the inhabited lands in Aman.
QL: Valinor, Valinóre, both glossed ‘Asgard’ (i.e. the City of the Gods in Norse Mythology)
Norë is found in QL under the root nō ‘become, be born’ and is glossed ‘native, land, nation, family, country.’ Also:
- -nor (the form in compounds)
- nosta – ‘give birth’ (nosta ‘birth, birthday’),
- nostalë ‘species, kind’
- nossë ‘kin, people’ (as in Aulenossë)
- Gnomish: dôr
[…] the beginning, Oromë took the Eldar by the sea instead of leading them there on the way to Valinor, due to its extreme […]