Early Quenya
mandu yáme
the abyss yawning
Element in
- Eq. Oilima Markirya “The Last Ark”
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The twenty sixth line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is the noun mandu “abyss” (usually translated “hell”) followed by the adjective yáme “yawning”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> mandu yáme = “✱abyss yawning”