lumbulë
(heavy) shadow
lumbulë
noun. dark shadow, heavy shadow; deep in shadow
A noun used in the Namárië poem and loosely translated as “deep in shadow” (LotR/377), but more accurately “heavy shadow, dark shadow” (PE17/72, 168; RGEO/59). It is a derivative of the root √LUB “shadow” (PE17/168), perhaps an elaboration of ᴹQ. lumbe “gloom, shadow” from The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/LUM).
Neo-Quenya: Based on its use, I suspect lumbulë refers to a great expanse of shadow (“shadowness”) rather than an individual cast shadow, which is Q. hala.
Derivations
- √LUB “shadow, darkness” ✧ PE17/168
Element in
- Q. ar ilyë tier undulávë lumbulë “and all paths are drowned deep in shadow” ✧ LotR/0377; RGEO/58
- Q. ar lumbulë undulávë ilyë tier “and (heavy) shadow swallowed (lit. down-licked) all roads” ✧ RGEO/59
Elements
Word Gloss lumbe “gloom, shadow” -lë “abstract noun, adverb” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √LUM > lumbule [lumbule] ✧ PE17/168 Variations
- lumbule ✧ PE17/072; PE17/072; PE17/072; PE17/168; RGEO/59
- lúmbulè ✧ RGEO/58
Lumbar
lumbar
Lumbar name of a star (or planet), tentatively identified with Saturn (MR:435), evidently connected to lumbo, lumbulë (Silm)
dúath
dark shadow
dúath (i dhúath) (nightshade), pl. dúaith (i núaith);
dúath
dark shadow
dúath (i dhúath) (nightshade), pl. dúaith (i núaith). Compare the Ephel Dúath or ”Mountains of Shadow” forming th outer fence of Mordor, perhaps suggesting that Dúath is also the word used of Sauron as ”the Shadow”.
lumbulë noun "(heavy) shadow" (Nam, RGEO:67, PE17:168)