Quenya 

hísilómë

place name. Land of Mist, (lit.) Mist-and-Dusk

The Quenya name of NS. Hithlum (S/118). It is usually glossed “Land of Mist”, but it is a compound of hísë (hísi-) “mist” and lómë “dusk”, so a more literal translation would be “Mist-and-Dusk” (given as a translation of Hithlum on LR/406).

Conceptual Development: This name dates back to the earliest Lost Tales, where ᴱQ. Hisilóme was translated “Shadowy Twilights” (LT1/112) or “Misty-gloom” (PE15/63). It was a compound of ᴱQ. híse “dusk” and ᴱQ. lóme “gloom, darkness”, as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Hisilómë). In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, ᴹQ. Hisilóme was translated “Twilit Mist” (SM/4) and “Land of Mist” (SM/101). The name appeared in The Etymologies with the same form but a slightly different derivation, with its second element originally derived from ᴹQ. lumbe “gloom, shadow” (Ety/LUM).

Cognates

  • north S. Hithlum “Land of Mist” ✧ PE17/133; SA/hîth; SI/Hísilómë; SI/Hithlum; WJI/Hithlum; S/118; WJ/400; WJI/Hísilómë
  • S. Hithlû “Hithlum” ✧ PE17/133

Derivations

Derivatives

  • north S. Hithlum “Land of Mist” ✧ WJ/400

Elements

WordGloss
hísë“mist, mist, [ᴹQ.] fog, [ᴱQ.] haze; dusk; bleared”
lómë“night, dimness, twilight, dusk, darkness, night, dimness, twilight, dusk, darkness, [ᴹQ.] night-time, shades of night, gloom; [ᴱQ.] shadow, cloud”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
χīþilōmē > hīsilōmi[kʰīθilōmē] > [kʰīθilōmē] > [xīθilōmē] > [hīθilōmē] > [hīθilōme] > [hīsilōme]✧ PE17/133

Variations

  • hīsilōmi ✧ PE17/133
  • Hísilóme ✧ WJ/400
Quenya [PE17/133; S/118; SA/hîth; SI/Hísilómë; SI/Hithlum; WJ/400; WJI/Hísilómë; WJI/Hithlum] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Noldorin 

hithlum

place name. Land of Mist, (lit.) Mist-and-Dusk

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. Hisilóme “Twilit Mist, Land of Mist” ✧ Ety/LUM; LRI/Hísilómë; SM/101
  • ᴹQ. Hísilumbe ✧ Ety/LUM

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
hîth“mist”
lhum“shade”
Noldorin [Ety/KHIS; Ety/LUM; Ety/TĀ; LR/249; LR/259; LR/406; LRI/Hísilómë; LRI/Hithlum; PE22/033; SM/101; SMI/Hithlum] Group: Eldamo. Published by

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North sindarin

hithlum

place name. Land of Mist

Cognates

  • Q. Hísilómë “Land of Mist, (lit.) Mist-and-Dusk” ✧ PE17/133; SA/hîth; SI/Hísilómë; SI/Hithlum; WJI/Hithlum; S/118; WJ/400; WJI/Hísilómë
  • S. Hithlû “Hithlum” ✧ PE17/133

Derivations

North sindarin [LT1I/Hithlum; MRI/Hithlum; PE17/133; S/118; SA/hîth; SI/Hísilómë; SI/Hithlum; UTI/Hithlum; WJ/400; WJI/Hísilómë; WJI/Hithlum] Group: Eldamo. Published by