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Welcome to Chestnut_pod’s Elvish Name List!

This list of names in Sindarin and Quenya began during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when Chestnut would spend hours at a time in Zoom meetings they really didn’t need to be in and sorely needed a screen-hobby.

In August 2023, Zhie and Kimikocha encouraged Chestnut to make it public and helped Chestnut move the list from its prior unhallowed existence as a thirty-page Notes app doc to this snazzy spreadsheet, committing great feats of data entry.

Use it in good health!
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Etiquette:
There are many names in the lexicon, and no one owns any particular one. You cannot “claim” a name from this list for your sole use. People are encouraged to freely reuse names.

If you use a name from this list in a fanwork, it would be great if you could link the list for others to discover! Conversely, if you would like the work in which you use a name to be linked in the spreadsheet so others can check out your cool OC with the awesome name, you may alert Chestnut via this anonymous Google Form.
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How to use this list:
There are three sub-sheets containing name lists, located at the bottom of the spreadsheet. These contain personal names in Quenya and Sindarin and place names in both languages.

Within the personal name tabs, names are organized by gender (neutral, feminine, masculine) by default. They are tagged with broad reference categories: Abstract, Animals, Astronomical, Elemental, Jewels, Marine, Occupational, Personal characteristic, Plants, Religious, Seasonal, Things of craft, Time of day, Warlike, Weather. To sort by reference categories, alphabetically, or otherwise, you can use temporary filters by selecting all cells, clicking DATA, then clicking SOURCE RANGE. However, because the order of adjectives and nouns is different in English, if you are looking for a particular noun-based name, you may have better luck keyword-searching. Some names have notes on the far righthand side indicating dialectical variations and other information.
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Caveats:
This list is the work of an amateur Elf Enthusiast. While Chestnut made their best effort to keep names grammatical, there may be errors. Scholarship on Tolkien’s conlangs is continually changing. Some words may become deprecated, replaced, or changed as time goes on. The names will not be updated.

Some names, though few, use neologisms (words which fans and scholars, not Tolkien, derived from roots, compounds, or cognates). Some authors prefer not to use these words, so be aware that they are not always noted in the lists when they occur. Again, these are a minority of names.

Remember, Finwë and Indis gave their firstborn a smushname and JRRT himself named someone “hair commander,” so, you know, chillax. It’s all lámatyávë.
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A remark on gender:
These lists divide names by gender. However, a) gender is a construct, and b) it is often possible to change the gender of a name. For example, the feminine Quenya name “Alassiel” can become the masculine “Alassion,” while the gender-neutral “Maldarma” can become the gendered “Maldarmië” and “Maldarmo.” There are some cases where this is not possible, due to length restrictions or the lack of an appropriate equivalent word in the lexicons. See the resources in the next box down for guidance on how to do this.

Many of the names currently classified as feminine Quenya names are in fact compound words that coincidentally contain ending elements homophonous to feminine nominative suffixes. These compound words are technically gender-neutral. Again, gender is a construct!
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Sources:
Chestnut learned how to make Quenya and Sindarin names thanks to several amazing resources available online, and you can too! The sources most heavily used in the making of this list are:
1. ElfDict.com (https://www.elfdict.com/)
2. Eldamo’s Quenya and Sindarin Word Indices (Quenya: https://eldamo.org/content/word-indexes/words-q.html) (Sindarin: https://eldamo.org/content/word-indexes/words-s.html)
3. “Not Just the Son of That Guy: Creating Effective Names for Original Characters,” by Darth Fingon (https://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/reference/references/pf/not-just-the-son-of-that-guy.php)
4. The Sindarin compound-creation flowchart at Weebly Sindarin Hub (https://sindarinlessons.weebly.com/36---how-to-make-names-1.html) | https://phonologyoftolkienselvish.weebly.com/quenya-phonetics-and-phonology.html
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