- 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. According to PE17:152, lómë refers to night when viewed favourably, as a rule, but it became the general rule cf. 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. In the battle-cry auta i lómë the night is passing Silm. ch. 20, the night would however seem to refer metaphorically to the reign of Morgoth. As for the gloss, cf. Lómion masc. name "Child of Twilight dusk", the Quenya name Aredhel secretly gave to Maeglin SA. Otherwise lómë is usually defined as "night" Letters:308, LR:41, SD:302 cf.414-15, SA:dú; the Etymologies defines lómë as "Night as phenomenon, night-time, shades of night, Dark" DO3/DŌ, LUM, DOMO, VT45:28, or "night-light" VT45:28, reading of lómë uncertain. In early "Qenya" the gloss was "dusk, gloom, darkness" LT1:255. Cf. lómelindëpl. lómelindi "nightingale" SA:dú, LR:41; SD:302, MR:172, DO3/DŌ, LINsup2/sup, TIN. Derived adjective \#lómëa "gloomy" in Lómëanor "Gloomyland"; see Taurelilómëa-tumbalemorna...
Quettaparma Quenyallo (Quenya-English). 2014.