osp “smoke”, both derived from primitive ᴹ✶ us(u)k-wē under the root ᴹ√ USUK (Ety/USUK). In The Etymologies of the 1930s it was ᴹQ. usqe “fog” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as a derivative of the early root ᴱ√ ṢQṢ (QL/98), also mentioned in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon as a cognate of G. _Derived adjective # lómëa "gloomy" in Lómëanor "Gloomyland" see Taurelilómëa-tumbalemorna.Īn Elvish noun Tolkien used for much of his life but with shifting meanings: 1910s “fog” > 1930s “reek” (= smoke) > 1940s-1950s “dusk”. In early "Qenya" the gloss was "dusk, gloom, darkness" (LT1:255). Otherwise lómë is usually defined as "night" (Letters:308, LR:41, SD:302 cf.414-15, SA:dú)_ the _Etymologies defines lómë as "Night, night-time, shades of night, Dark" (DO3/DŌ, LUM, DOMO, VT45:28), or "night-light" (VT45:28, reading of _ lómë uncertain). name "Child of Twilight ", the Quenya name Aredhel secretly gave to Maeglin _(SA). 20), the "night" would however seem to refer metaphorically to the reign of Morgoth. In the battle-cry auta i lómë "the night is passing" ( Silm. SD:414-415 regarding lōmi as an Adûnaic loan-word based on lómë, meaning "fair night, a night of stars" with "no connotations of gloom or fear"). According to PE17:152, lómë refers to night "when viewed favourably, as a rule, but it became the general rule" (cf. Lómë noun "dusk, twilight", also "night" according to SD:415, the stem is lómi- (contrast the "Qenya" genitive lómen rather than **lómin in VT45:28).
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