lúmë

darkness

lúmë (2) noun "darkness" (one wonders if Tolkien confused lúmë "time, hour" and lómë "night") (Markirya)

lúmë

noun. darkness

A noun in the 1960s versions of the Markirya glossed “darkness” (MC/222), perhaps derived from a root √DU as suggested by David Salo in a post to the Elfling mailing list in 2012 (Elfling/362.96).

Neo-Quenya: I’d generally use Q. huinë for “darkness” in Neo-Quenya, but that word is more for total darkness, whereas lúmë might be a less severe form of darkness, a variant of Q. lómë “night, dusk”.

Derivations

• √DU “dark”

Element in

• Q. enwina lúmë “the old darkness” ✧ MC/222

Variations

• lúme ✧ MC/222

lúmë

time

lúmë (1) noun "time" (LU, PE17:168) or "hour", locative lúmessë (VT43:34), pl. locative lúmissen "at the times" (VT49:47), allative lúmenna "upon the hour", elided lúmenn' in the greeting elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo "a star shines upon the hour of our meeting", because the next word begins with a similar vowel. The complete form lúmenna omentielvo is found in WJ:367 and Letters:425 (footnote). Cf. also the compounds lumenyárë and lúmequenta, q.v.; see also #sillumë.

lúmë

noun. time, period of time, hour

Cognates

• T. lúmë “hour, *time” ✧ WJ/367

Derivations

• ᴹ√LU “*time”
• √UL “pour (out), flow, pour (out), flow, [ᴱ√] flow fast” ✧ PE17/168

Element in

• ᴺQ. ailumë “anytime”
• ᴺQ. allumë “never”
• ᴺQ. apalúmë “future, (lit.) after-time”
• Q. elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo “a star shines on the hour of our meeting” ✧ Let/265; Let/425; LotR/0081; PE17/013; WJ/367
• Q. illumë “*always”
• ᴺQ. lillumë “many times, often”
• ᴺQ. -llumë “-times”
• ᴺQ. lúma “clock”
• ᴺQ. lúmëa “pertaining to time, temporal”
• ᴺQ. lúmincë “minute, moment”
• ᴺQ. malumë “when”
• ᴺQ. millumë “once, one time”
• Q. nai laurë lantuva parmastanna lúmissen tengwiesto “may (a) golden light fall on your book at the times of your reading” ✧ VT49/47
• ᴺQ. nalumë “sometime(s)”
• ᴺQ. ailumë “sometimes, at times”
• ᴺQ. lúmelissen “sometimes, at times”
• ᴺQ. malumë “sometimes, at times”
• Q. Onnalúmë “Time of the Children”
• Q. násië “now and at the hour of our death: Amen” ✧ VT43/34
• Q. silumë “now, (lit.) at this time, now, at this time, *present”
• ᴺQ. silúmëa “current, contemporary, modern”
• Q. talumë “at that time”
• Q. úlumë “ever, at all times (in a series or period)”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√ULU > lūmē	[lūmē] > [lūme]	✧ PE17/168

Variations

• lúme ✧ PE17/013; PE17/013; PE17/013
• lūmē ✧ PE17/168

lú

time, occasion

lú noun "a time, occasion" (LU)

ullumë

not for ever

ullumë adv.? a word occurring in Fíriel's Song, evidently meaning "not for ever". Cf. ú-, lúmë and úlumë.

mornië

darkness

mornië noun "darkness" (Nam, RGEO:67), "dark, blackness" (PE17:73). Early "Qenya" also has Mornië "Black Grief", "the black ship that plies between Mandos and Erumáni" (LT1:261). This is probably a compound of mor- "black" and nië "tear".

mor

darkness

mor noun "darkness" (Letters:308; probably just an Elvish "element" rather than a complete word; Namárië has mornië for "darkness")

lû

noun. a time, occasion

dúath

noun. darkness, shadow

dúath

noun. nightshade

môr

noun. darkness, dark, night

lû

time

_(a time) _1) lû (occasion), pl. lui, coll. pl. lúath.

lû

time

(occasion), pl. lui, coll. pl. lúath.

dû

darkness

1) dû (i dhû) (night, nightfall, late evening, dusk), pl. dui (i nui) (SD:302), 2) fuin (gloom, night, dead of night, nightshade). No distinct pl. form. 3) môr (i vôr, construct mor), pl. mŷr (i mŷr) if there is a pl. (Letters:382); 4 morn (i vorn) (night), pl. myrn (i myrn). Note: the word môr, morn is also used as an adjective ”dark, black”. (Letters:386)

dû

darkness

(i dhû) (night, nightfall, late evening, dusk), pl. dui (i nui) (SD:302)

anann

for a long time

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fuin

darkness

(gloom, night, dead of night, nightshade). No distinct pl. form.

orest

noun. hour

Elements

Word	Gloss
auri	“heat, period of sun”
SAT	“space, place; divide, apportion, mark off”

oreth

noun. hour

Elements

Word	Gloss
aur	“(whole) day, (whole) day, sunlight, [N.] morning”
SAT	“space, place; divide, apportion, mark off”

môr

darkness

(i vôr, construct mor), pl. m**ŷr (i m**ŷr) if there is a pl. (Letters:382); 4 morn (i vorn) (night), pl. myrn (i myrn). Note: the word môr, morn is also used as an adjective ”dark, black”. (Letters:386)

lúmë

noun. hour, *time

Cognates

• Q. lúmë “time, period of time, hour” ✧ WJ/367

Element in

• T. él síla lúmena vomentienguo “A star shines upon the hour of the meeting of our ways” ✧ WJ/407

burzum

noun. darkness

Element in

• Bs. ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul “one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them” ✧ LotR/0254; PE17/011; PE17/012

Elements

Word	Gloss
búrz	“dark”
-um	“particularizing suffix”

burzum

noun. darkness

lhû

noun. a time, occasion

dúath

noun. darkness, shadow

dúath

noun. nightshade

dúwath

noun. darkness, shadow

dúwath

noun. nightshade

môr

noun. darkness, dark, night