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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin
EDIT: isn't 'Greenleaf' just the translation of laeg + gwa-lass?
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Yes, it's a Silvan dialectal form of Sindarin
laeg (Woodland
leg) +
golas, -olas 'collection of leaves'.
I had thought that the rest of my post on Elvish naming customs was enough to point to my question (on whether Greenleaves was Legolas' 'last name') being in jest...
... but anyway