Quenya
anar púrëa tihta
a bleared sun blinking
Changes
- anar púrëa tihtala → anar púrëa tihta “a bleared sun blinking” ✧ MC/222
Element in
- Q. Markirya “The Last Ark”
Elements
Word Gloss Anar “Sun” púrëa “smeared, discoloured, bleared” tihta- “to blink, peer” Variations
- anar púrëa tihtala ✧ MC/222
The thirty-fifth line of the Markirya poem (MC/222). The first word is Anar “sun” followed by the adjective púrëa “bleared” and the infinitive (or short active-participle) of the verb tihta- “to blink”, used adjectivally.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> anar púrëa tihta = “✱sun bleared blinking”
Conceptual Development: In the first draft, Tolkien used the active-participle form of the verb: tihtala, switching to the short form in the second draft (MC/222).