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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
Hmmm.
NIM-RU-ZIR, if such a person exists?
ZIR for 3 letters from Zircona?
'NIM' means 'take' - Modern German 'nehmen' with an Old English cognate. Hence NYM, a petty thief in the Henry IV plays.
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Gadzooks! It's only the Adunaic name for the conspicuously absent Elendil the Tall! From 'Nimruzirim,' meaning Elf-Friends, I do believe.
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Bingo! (Not that Bingo.) Nim
is a game - a relative of the one where you count to 21 in ones, twos, and threes. And cubic zirconia for the jewel.
SILMARIEN - An older sister, almost a maid, lies nearly backward at first. -
...the Elendilmir itself, the white star of Elvish crystal upon a fillet of mithril that had descended from Silmarien...
TELCONTAR - The king is back - let a criminal rat be back too. -
...before all went Aragorn... and upon his brow was the Star of Elendil.
AZRUBEL - From beginning to end, a massage from the midst of Hell for the father of kings. -
...Eärendil... stood now most often at the prow of Vingilot, and the Silmaril was bound upon his brow...
NIMRUZIR - The tall game of removal: a short Russian holds the three of diamonds (fake) at the back. -
...the Elendilmir... had descended from Silmarien to Elendil, and had been taken by him as the token of royalty in the North Kingdom.
BAUGLIR - Look northward, bow, glare - or something like that, anyway. -
...the Silmarils in the crown on Morgoth's head blazed forth suddenly with a radiance of white flame...
ELROHIR - Break a hire around a torn and shortened roll, end up younger by half. -
...and Elladan and Elrohir with stars on their brow...
FEANARO - Turn tail, jeweller! Fear the doubled vowel with no injection. -
...at great feasts Fëanor would wear them, blazing on his brow...
ARWEN - In the middle of the evening, they are when you forget, eh? -
...Arwen... glimmering in the evening, with stars on her brow and a sweet fragrance about her...
Other attested starbrows are Nimrodel, Isildur (wearing the Elendilmir when he died), Valandil (for whom the second Elendilmir was made), and Erendis ("thus she was known far and wide as Tar-Elestirnë, the Lady of the Star-brow"). The other Kings of Arnor probably wore the second Elendilmir, but they're not individually confirmed. There's also a line in UT which implies the later Numenorean Kings and Queens followed Erendis' example, but it's none too solid. And of course, there's Smith of Wootton Major, from whom the term comes.
Tolkien really liked tying gems to people's foreheads, is what I'm saying.
Over to you,
Pervinca, and good job everyone!