Gilim и Nan
Gilim
У Хельги на Ардаламбионе он переводится как Winter giant
Gnomish Lexicon
Gilim - winter (<gel-.) e > i, before accented original -i, after one consonant
Имя явно собственное (написано с большой буквы), но кому оно принадлежит - нигде не сказано.
В The Book of Lost Tale 2, гл. 1
"Now Tinuviel took the wine and water when she was alone, and
singing a very magical song the while, she mingled them together,
and as they lay in the bowl of gold she sang a song of growth, and as
they lay in the bowl of silver she sang another song, and the names
of all the tallest and longest things upon Earth were set in that
song; the beards of the Indravangs, the tail of Karkaras, the body
of Glorund, the bole of Hirilorn, and the sword of Nan she
named, nor did she forget the chain Angainu that Aule and Tulkas
made or the neck of Gilim the giant , and last and longest of all she
spake of the hair of Uinen the lady of the sea that is spread through
all the waters. "
Примечания
or the neck of Gilim the giant that is taller than
many elm trees;...
Of the 'longest things' named in this spell (pp. 19 -- 20, 46) two, 'the sword of Nan ' and 'the neck of Gilim the giant', seem now lost beyond recall, ough they survived into the spell in the Lay of Leithian, where the sword of Nan is itself named, Clend, and Gilim is called 'the giant of Eruman'. Gilim in the Gnomish dictionary means 'winter' (see I.260, entry Melko), which does not seem particularly appropriate: though a jotting, very difficult to read, in the little notebook used for memoranda in connection with the Last Tales (see I. 171 ) seems to say that Nan was a 'giant of summer of the South', and that he was like an elm.
