An element appearing in the name
Rothinzil “Foam-flower”, attested in later writings (1968) as
roth (PM/369, 376). This later form is incompatible with the earlier phonetic rules of Lowdham’s Report from the 1940s, which
allowed only long
[ō] in Adûnaic words. If this word were used in the phonetic context of Lowdham’s Report (
Middle Adûnaic), it should be
rôth, and in these earlier texts, the Adûnaic name of Eärendi’s ship was
Rôthinzil with a long
ô (SD/360). Even in later writings, Tolkien lists
róþ ([rōθ] =
rôth) as one of its possible forms (PM/369). See the entry on
conceptual-changes-in-late-Adûnaic for further discussion.