Early Quenya
lómear
proper name. Child of Gloom
Changes
lōmiar→ lōmear “Child of Gloom” ✧ QL/055lŏmier→ lōmear “Child of Gloom” ✧ QL/055Derivations
- ᴱ√LOMO “*lurk; shadow” ✧ LT1A/Hisilómë
Elements
Word Gloss lóme “dusk, gloom, darkness; shadow, cloud” ar “child” Variations
- Lómëarni ✧ LT1/244
- lómëar ✧ LT1A/Hisilómë
- lōmear(ni) ✧ PME/055
- lōmear ✧ QL/055
- lōmiar ✧ QL/055 (
lōmiar)- lŏmier ✧ QL/055 (
lŏmier)
A name of the Dark Elves in drafts of the earliest Lost Tales, appearing in its plural form Lómearni (LT1/244). In the Qenya Lexicon, the name was glossed “Child of Gloom”, a combination of ᴱQ. lóme “gloom” (QL/55) and ᴱQ. ar “child”.