The name means "Goldtress”.
The name is composed of
Glor- (Sind. Glaur-, Q. Laure-): gold
And
Findel (Sind. Finnel, Q. Findë): hairlock, tress.
The name is Noldorin in the early initial “Gnomish”
sense:
a Quenya adaptation of Sindarin and/or vice versa.
Interesting is that both the name and its meaning
have
been steady since the earliest version of the Fall of Gondolin (1916),
and
reappear in both The Lord Of The Rings and The Silmarillion
with that spelling and that meaning. That is quite something in the
everchanging
world of JRRT.
In The Book of Lost Tales II p. 341 we find
Glorfinn
and Glorfingl as variants. There we also find findl and findil as
quenya
for hairlock, but these should be considered pre-mature forms of
findë.
Alternate Guild names are therefore:
Sindarin: Glaurfindel, Glaurfinnel, Glorfinn (arch.), Glorfingl (arch.)
Quenya: Laurëfindë, Laurefindl (arch.), Laurefindil (arch.).
References: The Lord Of The Rings, The Silmarillion
, The Book of Lost Tales II
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