An element in various Entish phrases meaning “shadowed” or “gloomy” (LotR/1131; PE17/81). It is an adjectival form of Q. lómë “night, dusk”, so is perhaps more literally “✱of or like the dim light of dusk or a star-lit night”, probably without the negative connotations that “gloomy” has in English.
Conceptual Development: A similar form appeared unglossed in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s as (ablative plural) ᴱQ. lómealloi in the phrase ᴱQ. fanwen tollillon lómëalloi, perhaps “✱a dream from the gloomy islands” as suggested by Patrick Wynne and Christopher Gilson (PE16/147).
#lómëa adj. "gloomy"; see Taurelilómëa-tumbalemorna...