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Q. lumbulë n. “dark shadow, heavy shadow; deep in shadow” (Category: Shade, Shadow)

Q. lumbulë, n. “dark shadow, heavy shadow; deep in shadow” (Category: Shade, Shadow)

A noun used in the Namárië poem and loosely translated as “deep in shadow” (LotR/377), but more accurately “heavy shadow, dark shadow” (PE17/72, 168; RGEO/59). It is a derivative of the root √LUB “shadow” (PE17/168), perhaps an elaboration of ᴹQ. lumbe “gloom, shadow” from The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/LUM).

Neo-Quenya: Based on its use, I suspect lumbulë refers to a great expanse of shadow (“shadowness”) rather than an individual cast shadow, which is Q. hala.

References ✧ LotR/377; PE17/72, 168; RGEO/58-59

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ᴹQ. lumbe “gloom, shadow”
-lë “abstract noun, adverb”

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LUM > lumbule [lumbule] ✧ PE17/168