12.38 Center
- Q. enda n. “heart; centre, *interior”
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A word clearly derived from the root √ENED “middle”. In the context of Elvish psychology, Tolkien described it as:
This we translate “heart”, though it has no physical reference to any organ of the hröa [body]. It means “centre”, and refers (though by inevitable physical allegory) to the fëa [spirit] or sáma [mind] itself, distinct from the periphery (as it were) of its contact with the hröa (VT39/32).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would assume this word can also be used physically to refer to the “interior” of something.
- Q. endë n. “centre, middle; [ᴹQ.] core”
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The word ᴹQ. ende first appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s, glossed either “middle, centre” (Ety/ÉNED) or “core, centre” (Ety/NÉD), and derived from the root ᴹ√ENED “middle” (Ety/ÉNED). In notes from late 1960s Tolkien had {ened >>} ente “centre”, which he clarified was “not used of emotions or thought only physical” (VT41/12). In this context it was derived from √HENET “middle” (VT41/16). But in other writings from the late 1960s, the word as again ende from √ENED “middle” (VT48/25), and I believe √HENET > ente was a transient idea.
Neo-Quenya: Base on its 1930s glosses and the meaning of 1960s ente, I believe ende is a noun referring to a physical centre.
- N. nest n. “heart, core”
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A word that is an element in N. Forannest as the name of the north gates of Rammas in drafts of The Lord or the Rings (WR/354; 357 note #17). It had the forms nesta, nethra, nest and the difficult-to-read gloss “heart, core”. It is probably related the root ᴹ√NED “middle, centre” from The Etymologies (Ety/NÉD).