A term for the Valar as Lords of the West from various stories about Númenor from the 1940s (SD/246, 290, 311). This name is a compound of númen “west” and heru “lord”.
Conceptual Development: ᴹQ. Númekundo was an earlier variant of this name using kundu “prince” instead of heru “lord” (SD/311).
#númeheru noun "Lord of the West" (númë + heru), attested in these inflected forms: 1) númeheruen "of [the] Lord of the West" (Manwë) (SD:290); this is "Qenya" with genitive in -en instead of -o as in LotR-style Quenya; 2) pl. númeheruvi "Lords-of-West" ("West-lords" = Valar) in SD:246.