http://eldamo.sourceforge.net/content/words/word-1923143165.html Tinwe-malle 'star-street'? Can't remember which location this refers to, but looks like a viable option (also *Elentie, *Elemmalle?)

I could imagine them calling the Milky Way 'the leaves of the Trees'.

But only post-Trees, of course.

+Nik May
interesting metaphor

I'm going with *Elentie for the time being as it suits my translation, but would love to hear other ideas.

Shards of the Silmarils would be poetic, post Silmarils. :)

PE15:96,100 ?may? be of some use

Perhaps they might have referred it to as The Straight Road, given that's what it looks like... (and Valinor ended up outside the Circles of the World)

+Jenna Carpenter but isn't the Straight Road something you cannot readily find? Not something that is in plain sight every night. I like the idea though.

+Matt Dinse fascinating. By the way, Ermine Street runs just down the road where I now live.
I'm not sure how to translate the concept of Watling Street to Eldarin though...

I'm not sure how to translate ideas like Watling Street or Irminstrasse into Eldarin either, but it was the only mention of the Milky Way that I could think of. Perhaps some focus on "a road paved with dust of stars across the heavens"? I had thought that might lend support for Elentie.

Tinwemalle appears in the Index for Morgoth's Ring as 'Star-street', the path of the stars, Ilmen. It refers to "How can this possibly be brought into agreement with the idea (IV.241, 243) of the Tinwë-mallë, the path of the stars, which is the 'middle air' of Ilmen, the second region of the firmament of Ilu?"

That's referring to the Ambarkanta in Shaping, where we have "_Ilmen_: Place of light. The region above Sky. Heaven the air, than which it is thinner and more clear. Here only the stars and Moon and Sun can fly. It is called also Tinwë-mallë the Star-street, & Elenarda Stellar Kingdom."

+Matt Dinse *Elenastie "stardust path"?
Thanks for illuminating Tinwemalle- that one appears to be a different concept.