mindon

noun. turret, tower

lante no lanta-mindon

falling upon fallen towers

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”

ambo

noun. hill

amun

noun. hill

oro

noun. hill

oron

noun. hill

tirin

place name. Tower

Name of Ingil’s tower in the earliest Lost Tales (LT2/5), it is simply tirin “tower” used as a name (LT1A/Kortirion).