Elanor
Plants
Elanor is Sindarin elvish, meaning "star-sun".
Found in Lothlorien on the hill of Cerin Amroth.
"At the feet of the trees, and all about the green
hillsides,
the grass was studded with small golden flowers shaped like stars."
Haldir calls it the yellow elanor and says
that
it is a winter flower, but Lothlorien lets it bloom all year. Among the
grass
and elanor also grew the pale niphredil. Frodo calls elanor the little
golden
flower in the grass.
Elanor Gamgee, Sam's oldest daughter, was named
after
the flower Sam saw, at Frodo's suggestion. She was blonde and called
"the
Fair".
References:
Fellowship: "Lothlorien".
Return of
the King: "The Grey Havens"
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