A word for “darkness” or “blackness” appear in the Namárië, a noun form of morna “black, dark” (LotR/377; PE17/73).
Quenya
mornië
darkness
mornië
noun. darkness, blackness
Derivations
- √MOR “black, dark, darkness” ✧ PE17/073
Element in
- Q. ar sindanóriello caita mornië “and out of a grey country darkness lies” ✧ LotR/0377; RGEO/58
- Q. ar sindanóriello mornië caita “and from a grey country darkness lies” ✧ RGEO/59
Elements
Word Gloss morna “black, dark; black of hair, black, dark; black of hair; [ᴹQ.] sombre, gloomy” -ië “abstract noun, adverb” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √MOR > mornie [mornie] ✧ PE17/073 Variations
- mornie ✧ PE17/073; PE17/073
- mórnië̀ ✧ RGEO/58
mórë
blackness, dark, night, darkness
mórë noun "blackness, dark, night, darkness" (MOR, MC:214), also given with a short vowel:morë "dark, darkness" (Letters:282). If this is the initial element of Morinehtar "Darkness-slayer" (PM:384, 385), it would seem to have the stem-form mori-, though mori- is normally the adjective "dark, black" (see below).
mor
darkness
mor noun "darkness" (Letters:308; probably just an Elvish "element" rather than a complete word; Namárië has mornië for "darkness")
-ië
openness
-ië (2) abstract ending, often used to derive abstracts from adjectives, e.g. látië "openness" vs. láta "open", mornië "darkness" vs. morna "black, dark", vanië (for *vanyië) "beauty" vs. vanya "fair".
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
látie
noun. openness
Elements
Word Gloss láta “open (not closed)” -ië “abstract noun, adverb”
látië
openness
látië noun "openness" (VT39:23)
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".