Editing Noldor (section)

=== Germanic influence ===
[[File:Baldisholteppet 2.jpg|thumb|The Noldor have skill in weaving and needlework through [[Finwë and Míriel|Finwë's marriage to Míriel]]. Tolkien was aware that Germanic women were called weavers or embroiderers. [[Baldishol Tapestry]] pictured.<ref name="Solopova 2014"/>]]

The Tolkien scholar Leslie A. Donovan notes that Tolkien's concept of exile, as principally exemplified by the Noldor, derives in part from [[Anglo-Saxon]] culture, in which he was an expert.<ref name="Donovan 2013">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Donovan |first=Leslie A. |editor-last=Drout |editor-first=Michael D. C. |editor-link=Michael D. C. Drout |title=Exile |encyclopedia=[[The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia]] |year=2013 |orig-year=2007 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-0-415-86511-1 |page=178}}</ref>

The medievalist [[Elizabeth Solopova]] makes a connection between [[Middle English]] and Tolkien's description of Finwë's first wife Míriel as the most skilful of the Noldor at weaving and needlework; Solopova notes that Tolkien had proposed an etymology for the Middle English term ''burde'', meaning lady or damsel, linking it to [[Old English]] ''borde'', embroidery, and that he had given examples from both Old English and [[Old Norse]] where women were called weavers or embroiderers.<ref name="Solopova 2014">{{cite book |last=Solopova |first=Elizabeth |title=[[A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien]] |date=2014 |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |isbn=978-0-470-65982-3 |editor-last=Lee |editor-first=Stuart D. |editor-link=Stuart D. Lee |page=231 |chapter=Middle English |author-link=Elizabeth Solopova |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vsPXDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA231}}</ref>