Wife of Ingwe?

[erulisse]

Obviously Ingwe has a wife, since there is no other way he could have a son. But is there any specific mention of her or her name in any of our reference materials? I'm not finding any, but should probably know if I need a name for my latest story. Any help would be appreciated....

- Erulisse (one L)

[grey gazania]

She's definitely nameless, and I'm close to positive that we know nothing about her except that she exists. So go wild!

[elleth]

I can only second GG. I recently wasted an afternoon looking for info on Ingwe's wife and found nothing at all, except that he had more than one child - we get Ingwion and Ingil as versions of each other, but one or two doesn't exactly fit the "many children" both Ingwe and Olwe were mentione to have in HoMe X.

As for naming Ingwe's wife, I suppose part of it depends on which version of the story you are going by - at least one version states he had a sister (either Indis, or Indis' mother), suggesting he had parents, another version puts him in place of Imin as the first elf to be awakened at Cuivienen. If you go with that version or a variant (putting him among the awakened) and the (rather horrid) legend and naming scheme attached to it, Ingye might be a possible name (analogous to Imin - Iminye, Tata - Tatye, Enel - Enelye).

If not - your possibilities are far more open. You could go for backformation from Ingil, for example, if you posit that it's a combination of both his parents' names (as with Findis), leaving you with either Gil- or Il- (this is where I got Ilwe from for one of my stories; you're welcome to snatch it if you like) as the root of her name.

We also know that names of or prior to the Great Journey (if that is her origin in your story) tend to be simple: Ingwe, Finwe, Elwe, Olwe, Lenwe, Nowe, one monosyllabic element plus a suffix designating personhood. -we is not exclusively male, either: We have Elenwe (who incidentally was Vanyarin, too), after all, so you're good to go with that, or -wen, -iel, -ien if you want an exclusively female suffix.

Hope this helps.