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Excellent deduction. Another possibility is that Aule and Co. had glass in Valinor and that the word, via Valinorean via Aule's teaching the Dwarves got glass making and the name there. Or Melian recalled the [hypothetically Valinorean] from her time in the Undying Lands...
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The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.
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