Of Beleriand and Its Realms

[Elvellon]

EX-28: Cf. The War of the Jewels, p. 385:

...this people still called themselves by the old clan-name *Lindai, which had at that time taken the form Lindi in their tongue. The country in which most of them eventually settled, as a small independent folk, they called Lindon (< *Lindānā) [...] The Sindar [...] adopted the names Lindi and Lindon, giving them the forms Lindil (sg. Lindel) or Lindedhil, and Lindon or Dor Lindon. In Exilic Quenya the forms used (derived from the Sindar or direct from the Nandor) were Lindi and Lindon (or Lindóne).

EX-28 should therefore read: "For which reason the {Noldor}[Nandor] named that land Lindon.[Footnote to the text: the Land of Song.]" Strictly speaking, the Nandorin name seems to have been Lindānā, but the Sindarized form should be used here, with the Nandorin derivation appearing in the section on clan names.