Eldamo : Quenya : lúmë²

Q. lúmë² n. “darkness” (Category: Darkness)

Q. lúmë², n. “darkness” (Category: 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”.

Reference ✧ MC/222 ✧ lúme “darkness”

lúmë² “darkness” is perhaps a variant of lómë “night, dimness, twilight, dusk, darkness”

Element In

Q. enwina lúmë “the old darkness” ✧ MC/222

Derivations

< *√DU “dark”