本帖最后由 skyey 于 2011-8-30 08:52 编辑
刚查了下,唯一的线索是
1.山姆的一个女儿的名字
2.Lothlorien的一种花的名字.
当然,山姆完全可能给自己女儿以那种花的名字命名.
Also, in the book it is spelled Elanor, being a Sindarin name containing 'star' + 'sun' (noting other names Elwing, Minas Anor)
In 1969 Tolkien wrote (in a letter):
'I have not seen anything that immediately recalls niphredil or elanor ... but I think that is because those imagined flowers are lit by a light that would not be seen ever in a growing plant and cannot be recaptured by paint. Lit by that light, niphredil would be simply a delicate kin of a snowdrop; and elanor a pimpernel (perhaps a little enlarged) growing sun-golden flowers and star-silver ones on the same plant, and sometimes the two combined.'
JRRT, Letter 312
