A golden, star-shaped flower, with a name meaning sun-star. Sam Gamgee first came across it in Lórien, and named his eldest daughter, Elanor Gamgee, from it.
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The name elanor is conventionally translated as 'Sun-star', though actually this reverses the elements of the name. The word combines el, 'star' and anor 'Sun', so a strictly literal (though rather less euphonic) translation would be 'star-Sun'.
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