Early Quenya
tollalinta ruste
upon crumbling hills
Element in
- Eq. Oilima Markirya “The Last Ark”
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The twenty fourth line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is the allative plural form of the noun tolla “hill” followed by the plural form of the adjective rusta “crumbling”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> tolla-li-nta rust-e = “✱hill-(plural)-upon crumbling-(plural)”