Early Quenya
lante no lanta-mindon
falling upon fallen towers
Element in
- Eq. Oilima Markirya “The Last Ark”
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The twenty eighth line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is the aorist tense of the verb lant- “to fall”, its subject being the “old darkness” (aire móre) of the previous phrase. This is followed by the preposition no “upon” with a compound of the adjective lanta “fallen” with the noun mindon “tower”, loosely translated as plural “towers” in the English.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> lant-e no lanta-mindon = “✱fall-(aorist) upon fallen-tower”