* Among the earliest instances of Gnomish are three heraldic devices of the towns of Tol Erethrin (Tol Erëssea): Taurobel (a variant of Tavrobel), Cortirion (Kortirion, or Warwick), and Celbaros, which depicts a fountain and intertwined rings appropriate to Cheltenham, the spa town where Tolkien asked Edith Bratt to marry him. Ranon and Ecthelin (suggesting the Gnomish for ‘fountain’) stand for ‘Ronald’ and ‘Edith’.