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.