glend perhaps connected with gnomish glenn 'thin , fine ' , glendrin 'slender ' , glendrinios 'slenderness ' , glent , glentweth 'thinness ' ; qenya root lene 'long ' , which developed its meaning in different directions : 'slow , tedious , trailing ' , and 'stretch , thin ' : lenka 'slow ' , lenwa 'long and thin , straight , narrow ' , lenu- 'stretch ' , etc .