vanima

adj. "beautiful, fair" BAN, VT39:14 glossed "proper, right, fair" in early "Qenya", LT1:272, though a later source says the word is used “only of living things, especially Elves and Men”, PE17:150; nominal pl. vanimar "beautiful ones", partitive pl. genitive vanimálion, translated "of beautiful children", but literally meaning *"of some beautiful ones" LotR3:VI ch. 6, translated in Letters:308. Arwen vanimalda "Beautiful Arwen", literally "Arwen your beauty" see -lda for reference; changed to Arwen vanimelda in the second edition of LotR; see vanimelda.