Quenya
métim’ auressë
in the last morning
Changes
- métima amaurëasse → métim’ auressë “in the last morning” ✧ MC/222
Element in
- Q. Markirya “The Last Ark”
Elements
Word Gloss métima “last, ultimate, final” aurë “day (as opposed to night), daylight, sunlight, morning, day (as opposed to night), daylight, morning; sunlight, [ᴱQ.] sunshine, gold light, warmth” Variations
- métima amaurëasse ✧ MC/222
The thirty-seventh line of the Markirya poem (MC/222). The first word is the adjective métima “last” with the final vowel elided because of the initial a in the next word, which is the locative form of the noun aurë “morning” (more commonly “day”).
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> métim’ aure-ssë = “✱last morning-in”
Conceptual Development: In the first draft, Tolkien did not elide the adjective métima, and used a different word for “morning”: amaurëa (MC/222).