Hísilómë

hithlum

Hísilómë (þ) place-name "Hithlum", "Land of Mist", more literally *"Mist-night" (SA:hîth, LUM, [VT45:28])

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

• ✶χīþilōmē “Hithlum” ✧ PE17/133

Derivatives

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

Elements

Word	Gloss
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

Development	Stages	Sources
✶χīþilōmē > hīsilōmi	[kʰīθilōmē] > [kʰīθilōmē] > [xīθilōmē] > [hīθilōmē] > [hīθilōme] > [hīsilōme]	✧ PE17/133

Variations

• hīsilōmi ✧ PE17/133
• Hísilóme ✧ WJ/400

Hithlum

noun. misty shade

hîth (“mist, fog”) + lum (“shade”)

Hithlum

a name in a dialect of the North

topon. a name in a dialect of the North, S. Hilthlû.

hithlum

place name. Hithlum

hithlû

place name. Hithlum

The proper Sindarin name of NS. Hithlum (itself North Sindarin), since in Western Sindarin phonology a primitive [[s|final [m] became a nasalized [v]]], which was then absorbed by the preceding [u] (PE17/133).

Conceptual Development: A form N. Cílu appearing linguistic notes from the 1930s might be an early “true Noldorin” name for Hithlum (PE21/32).

Cognates

• Q. Hísilómë “Land of Mist, (lit.) Mist-and-Dusk” ✧ PE17/133
• north S. Hithlum “Land of Mist” ✧ PE17/133

Derivations

• ✶χīþilōmē “Hithlum” ✧ PE17/133

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶χīþilōmē > hithlũṽ > Hithlũ	[kʰītʰilōmē] > [kʰītʰilōme] > [kʰīθilōme] > [xīθilōme] > [xīθilūme] > [xīθilūm] > [hīθilūm] > [hīθlūm] > [hiθlūm] > [hiθlūv] > [hiθlū]	✧ PE17/133

Variations

• Hithlũ ✧ PE17/133

Dorlomin

a name in a dialect of the North

topon. a name in a dialect of the North, S. Dorloven.

Góndolind

a name in a dialect of the North

topon. a name in a dialect of the North, S. Gonnólen. Maybe acute accent in the two names was only used in order to mark pronunciation.

Hithlum

Mist-shadow

Hithlum is a North Sindarin word, meaning "Mist-shadow" (hith + lum); its Quenya counterpart is Hisilómë (pron. , stem Hisilómi-). Its Sindarin name is said to be Hithlũ.

Tolkien initially marked the word as Noldorin; its second element was cognate to Quenya lumbe.

χīþilōmē

place name. Hithlum

Derivatives

• Q. Hísilómë “Land of Mist, (lit.) Mist-and-Dusk” ✧ PE17/133
  • north S. Hithlum “Land of Mist” ✧ WJ/400
• S. Hithlû “Hithlum” ✧ PE17/133
• north S. Hithlum “Land of Mist” ✧ PE17/133

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

• N. Aran Chithlum “King of Hithlum” ✧ Ety/TĀ; PE22/033

Elements

Word	Gloss
hîth	“mist”
lhum	“shade”