Eldamo : Quenya : tanen

Q. tanen adv. “in that way” (Category: That)

Q. tanen, adv. “in that way, [ᴹQ.] by that means” (Category: That)

A word for “in that way” appearing in a list of demonstratives from 1968 (VT49/11), a combination of ta “that” and the instrumental suffix -nen. In drafts of the Ambidexters Sentence, Tolkien used tánen for “therefore”, but this was rejected (VT49/11). Similarly formed ᴹQ. tainen “by that means” appeared in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/111).

References ✧ VT49/11

Glosses

“in that way” ✧ VT49/11

Variations

tanen ✧ VT49/11

Changes

tánen “therefore” >> etta “*therefore” ✧ VT49/11

Inflections

tánen

instrumental

“therefore”

✧ VT49/11

Elements

ta¹	“that, there”	✧ VT49/11 (tă)
-nen	“instrumental”

Element In

Q. epetai i hyarma ú ten ulca símaryassen “consequently the left hand was not to them evil in their imaginations” ✧ VT49/6

ᴹQ. tainen adv. “by that means” (Category: That)

See Q. tanen for discussion.

Reference ✧ PE23/111 ✧ “by that means”

Elements

ta¹	“that, it”	✧ PE23/111 (tainen)
-nen	“instrumental”