Na vedui! Just what is a 'Thranduil' anyway?
I'm just flipping through Parma Eldalamberon 17, but had to share this little nugget. We finally have Tolkien's etymology of Thranduil. He is neither a great hall nor beyond the long river, but a 'vigorous spring'.
There are also some notes on the language and a tiny bit of history of the Silvan Elves, though I think most of these ended up in Unfinished Tales in a slightly more complete form.
eta: With regard to Myron Mairon the most excellent, we learn that Sauron used (preferred?) his original name up until the drowning of Númenor. (Perhaps, after that debacle, even he admitted that he was not quite so 'excellent' as had once been thought.) Who would have named him 'Excellent one'? Did the Ainur name themselves?
There are also some notes on the language and a tiny bit of history of the Silvan Elves, though I think most of these ended up in Unfinished Tales in a slightly more complete form.
eta: With regard to Myron Mairon the most excellent, we learn that Sauron used (preferred?) his original name up until the drowning of Númenor. (Perhaps, after that debacle, even he admitted that he was not quite so 'excellent' as had once been thought.) Who would have named him 'Excellent one'? Did the Ainur name themselves?