ar lumbulë undulávë ilyë tier

and (heavy) shadow swallowed (lit. down-licked) all roads

The 11th phrase of the prose Namárië. Tolkien altered the text from the poetic version as follows:

> ar ilyë tier undulávë lumbulë >> ar lumbulë undulávë ilyë tier

Tolkien simply swapped the subject lumbulë “(heavy) shadow” with the object ilyë tier “all roads” to be consistent with the usual Quenya subject-verb-object word order.

Element in

• Q. Namárië, prose

Elements

Word	Gloss
ar	“and, and; [ᴱQ., ᴹQ.] but”
lumbulë	“dark shadow, heavy shadow; deep in shadow”
undulav-	“to drown, swallow, submerge, (lit.) lick down”
ilya	“every, each, all (of a particular group of things), every, each, all (of a particular group of things), [ᴹQ.] the whole”
tië	“path, road, way, line, path, road, way, line, [ᴹQ.] course, direction, [ᴱQ.] route”

Variations

• ar lumbule undu-lāve ilye tiër ✧ RGEO/59