Name Elwing
Gender Feminine
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Meaning & History
Means "foam of stars" or "star-spray" from Sindarin #êl# "star" and #gwing# "foam, spindrift, spume, (flying) spray blown off wave-tops". In 'The Lord of the Rings' (1954) J. R. R. Tolkien, Elwing was a daughter of Dior, named for the waterfall of Lanthir Lamath in Ossiriand; she was also the mother of Elrond and grandmother of Arwen.