andúne

noun. sunset

sunset

andúnë

sunset, west, evening

andúnë noun "sunset, west, evening" (NDŪ, Markirya, SA), also in Namárië: Andúnë "West" (but the standard Quenya translation of "west" is Númen) (Nam, RGEO:66) Cf. andu- in Andúnië, Andúril.

andúnë

place name. The West

A name for the Uttermost West as a region, appearing in the Namárië poem (LotR/377). It is simply andúnë “sunset, west” used as a proper name.

Element in

• Q. Andúnë pella Vardo tellumar nu luini “beyond the West, beneath the blue vaults of Varda” ✧ LotR/0377; RGEO/58
• Q. Andúnë pella Vardo nu luini tellumar “West beyond [the borders of] Varda’s under blue domes” ✧ RGEO/58

Elements

Word	Gloss
andúnë	“sunset, evening, (orig.) going down; west”

Variations

• Andúne ✧ PE17/064
• Àndū́ne ✧ RGEO/58
• Andūne ✧ RGEO/58

andúnë

noun. sunset, evening, (orig.) going down; west

Changes

• andúnie → andúne ✧ MC/222

Cognates

• S. annûn “sunset, west; (lit.) going down” ✧ PE17/064; SA/andúnë

Derivations

• √NDU “down, under, below; sink, descend, go down, down, under, below; sink, descend, go down, [ᴹ√] set (of Sun)” ✧ PE17/064; SA/andúnë
• ✶ṇdūnē “sunset” ✧ PE19/077
  • √NDU “down, under, below; sink, descend, go down, down, under, below; sink, descend, go down, [ᴹ√] set (of Sun)”

Element in

• Q. andúna “western”
• Q. Andúnë “The West”
• Q. Andúnië “Sunset” ✧ SA/andúnë
• Q. man cenuva métim’ andúnë? “Who shall see the last evening?” ✧ MC/222; MC/222

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶ṇdūnē > andúne	[ṇdūnē] > [andūnē] > [andūne]	✧ PE19/077

Variations

• andÚne ✧ LotR/1116
• andúne ✧ MC/222; PE19/077
• andúnie ✧ MC/222 (andúnie)
• Andūne ✧ PE17/064

Andúnië

sunset

Andúnië (apparently a variant form of andúnë) place-name, a city and port on the western coast of Númenor, said to mean "sunset". (Appendix A, Silm, UT:166, NDŪ/VT45:38)

andúnië

place name. Sunset

A city in western Númenor, “so called because it faced the sunset” (S/261). It is andúnë “sunset” with the abstract-noun suffix -ië.

Conceptual Development: The name ᴹQ. Andúnie appeared in the earliest tales of Númenor, first as a name for Númenor itself (LR/14), but soon changing to the name of a major city of that land (LR/25). At one point Tolkien considered changing this name to ᴹQ. Undúnië, but he soon rejected the idea (SD/333, SD/340 note #2).

Elements

Word	Gloss
andúnë	“sunset, evening, (orig.) going down; west”
-ië	“abstract noun, adverb”

telu

adjective. last, last; end (fate), close

An apparently adjectival element in the name Telufinwë meaning “last”.

Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, ᴱQ. telu was a noun meaning “end, close” (QL/91). In the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa it was glossed “end (fate)” (PME/91).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use this element only in compounds since it is not clear what its independent singular or plural forms would be (telo, telwi?). For the ordinary adjective, I’d use métima or telda.

Derivations

• √TEL “close, end, complete, come to an end”

Element in

• Q. Telufinwë “Last Finwë” ✧ PM/353
• ᴺQ. telustë “extremity”

Variations

• Telu ✧ PM/353 (Telu)

telda

last, final

telda (1) adj. "last, final" (WJ:407)

métima

last

métima adj. "last" (Markirya), in Markirya also twice métim', since the following words (auressë, andúnë) begin in an a.

oilima

last

oilima adj."last" (MC:213, 214; this is "Qenya"), inflected or lengthened form oilimain "last (pl.)" (MC:221), oilimaisen "(MC:221), oilimaite "last" (MC:214, 221)