Quennar

He wrote extensively about the reckoning of time among the Valar. His great work the Yénonótië was cited by Pengolodh in the Annals of Aman, particularly his writing explaining the length of the Valian year and its relation to the waxing and waning of the Two Trees. Quennar also calculated the duration of Valian years compared to the solar years.

Quennar was known to have resided in Tirion at the time when both Vanyar and Noldor resided there, at which time he devised the word Menel ("heavens, firmament").

Quennar consists of the Quenya word for 'person', 'elf': quen, and a derivative of the root NAR2 'tell', yielding the meaning *"Elf-speaker".

i is the article 'the'.

Onótimo apparently means "Reckoner", originating from the verb onot- 'count up' and the masculine agental suffix -mo.

Thus his full title appears to be "Quennar the Reckoner".

Originally, "Quennar i Onótimo" was to have been the author of the Annals of Aman as a whole, having learned and borrowed much writing from Rúmil. Eventually, Tolkien attributed the Annals to Rúmil himself, while adding "quoth Pengolodh" to the end of the section ascribed to Quennar. This probably means that Pengolodh quoted Quennar's work in his enlargement of the Annals, which presumably took place after the Exile of the Noldor. Since Quennar's writing discusses the Years of the Sun, which did not exist while the Noldor still lived in Aman, it is most likely the case that in the final version of events as envisioned by Tolkien, Quennar wrote the Yénonótië after the Exile and was thus a Noldo who came to Middle-earth.

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