andúnië

place name. Sunset

A city in western Númenor, “so called because it faced the sunset” (S/261). It is andúnë “sunset” with the abstract-noun suffix -ië.

Conceptual Development: The name ᴹQ. Andúnie appeared in the earliest tales of Númenor, first as a name for Númenor itself (LR/14), but soon changing to the name of a major city of that land (LR/25). At one point Tolkien considered changing this name to ᴹQ. Undúnië, but he soon rejected the idea (SD/333, SD/340 note #2).

Elements

Word	Gloss
andúnë	“sunset, evening, (orig.) going down; west”
-ië	“abstract noun, adverb”

Andúnië

sunset

Andúnië (apparently a variant form of andúnë) place-name, a city and port on the western coast of Númenor, said to mean "sunset". (Appendix A, Silm, UT:166, NDŪ/VT45:38)

andúnë

sunset, west, evening

andúnë noun "sunset, west, evening" (NDŪ, Markirya, SA), also in Namárië: Andúnë "West" (but the standard Quenya translation of "west" is Númen) (Nam, RGEO:66) Cf. andu- in Andúnië, Andúril.

andúnë

noun. sunset, evening, (orig.) going down; west

Changes

• andúnie → andúne ✧ MC/222

Cognates

• S. annûn “sunset, west; (lit.) going down” ✧ PE17/064; SA/andúnë

Derivations

• √NDU “down, under, below; sink, descend, go down, down, under, below; sink, descend, go down, [ᴹ√] set (of Sun)” ✧ PE17/064; SA/andúnë
• ✶ṇdūnē “sunset” ✧ PE19/077
  • √NDU “down, under, below; sink, descend, go down, down, under, below; sink, descend, go down, [ᴹ√] set (of Sun)”

Element in

• Q. andúna “western”
• Q. Andúnë “The West”
• Q. Andúnië “Sunset” ✧ SA/andúnë
• Q. man cenuva métim’ andúnë? “Who shall see the last evening?” ✧ MC/222; MC/222

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶ṇdūnē > andúne	[ṇdūnē] > [andūnē] > [andūne]	✧ PE19/077

Variations

• andÚne ✧ LotR/1116
• andúne ✧ MC/222; PE19/077
• andúnie ✧ MC/222 (andúnie)
• Andūne ✧ PE17/064

andúne

noun. sunset

sunset