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Dates
Existed throughout the Years of the Trees (perhaps some 14,325 years)1
Location
Origins
Settlements
Stood near the city of Valmar
Pronunciation
tyelpe'rion (where ty is a single sound, similar to ch, as at the beginning of British English pronunciation of the word tune)
Meaning
Not completely clear, though tyelpë is definitely 'silver'2
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TyelperionThe original Quenya name for the White Tree
The Quenya word for 'silver' was properly tyelpë, and so the original full Quenya name for the elder of the Two Trees, which shone with a silver light, was not the familiar Telperion, but strictly Tyelperion. The language of the Teleri who lived on the shores of Aman was related to Quenya, but distinct from it, and the Telerin word for silver was not tyelpë but telpë. The Teleri, indeed, had a special love of silver, to the extent that their word for that metal influenced the Quenya tongue used by the other Elves of Valinor. Hence, Tyelperion came to be rendered as Telperion in common use, and so the name has come down through history. Notes
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