raumo nurrua
the storm mumbling
Changes
- raumo nurrula → raumo nurrua “the storm mumbling” ✧ MC/222
Element in
- Q. Markirya “The Last Ark”
Elements
Word Gloss raumo “(noise of a) storm” nurru- “to murmur, grumble, mumble” Variations
- raumo nurrula ✧ MC/222
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húro ulmula
the storm mumbling
The twentieth line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is húro “storm” followed by the adjective (active-participle?) ulmula “mumbling”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> húro ulmula = “✱storm mumbling”
Element in
- Eq. Oilima Markirya “The Last Ark”
The twenty-first line of the Markirya poem (MC/222). The first word is raumo “storm” followed an adjectival form of nurru- “to mumble”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> raumo nurru-a = “✱storm mumbl-ing”
Conceptual Development: In the first draft, Tolkien used an active-participle form nurrula, which he retained initially in the second draft before changing it into a more generic adjectival form nurrua (MC/222).