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lóna

dark

?lóna (4) adj. "dark" (DO3/DŌ). If this is to be the cognate of "Noldorin"/Sindarin dûr, as the context seems to indicate, lóna is likely a misreading for *lóra in Tolkien's manuscript.

lóna

pool, mere

lóna (1) noun "pool, mere" (VT42:10). Variant of lón, lónë above?

lóna

island, remote land difficult to reach

lóna (2) noun "island, remote land difficult to reach" (LONO (AWA) ). Obsoleted by #1 above?

lóna

soaking wet

[lóna (3) unused adj., a form Tolkien mentioned as the hypothetical Quenya cognate of Sindarin loen, Telerin logna adj. "soaking wet" (VT42:10), but this cognate was not in use because it clashed with #1 above. At this point, Tolkien may seem to have forgotten lóna #2.]

lóna

noun. (deep) pool, mere, river-feeding well

A noun lóna glossed “pool, mere” derived from the root √LON and distinct in origin from Sindarin “flood” < √LOG (VT42/10).

Conceptual Development: This word seems to be a remnant of Tolkien’s investigation into the origin of the river-name S. Lhûn (PE17/136-137; VT48/27-28), where Tolkien first considered having a related Quenya word hlōna “a river” (PE17/136), then another related word lōn(e) “deep pool or lake” (PE17/137), but this notion was rejected and Tolkien said:

> The stem (S)LOW- does not appear in Quenya, where it is replaced by √LŎNŎ, as in lōn/lōne (pl. lōni) “deep pool or river-feeding well” (PE17/137).

This word and its derivation seems to have reemerged as lóna “pool, mere” in the notes on The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from the late 1960s, as described above (VT42/10).

Changes

  • lōnlōn “deep pool or lake” ✧ PE17/137
  • lōnlōn “deep pool or lake” ✧ VT48/28

Derivations

  • slōno “Lhûn” ✧ PE17/136; VT48/27
    • LOW “flow freely (fully)” ✧ PE17/136; PE17/137; VT48/27; VT48/28
    • LON “*haven, harbour” ✧ PE17/137; VT48/28
  • LOW “flow freely (fully)” ✧ PE17/137; PE17/137; VT48/28; VT48/28
  • LON “*haven, harbour” ✧ PE17/137; VT42/10; VT48/28

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
Slōnā > hlōna[slōnā] > [l̥ōnā] > [l̥ōna]✧ PE17/136
LŎNŎ > lōn[lōn]✧ PE17/137
LOW > lou > [low] > [lou] > [lū]✧ PE17/137
LOW > lounē̆ > lūn[loune] > [loun] > [lūn]✧ PE17/137
LON > lóna[lōna]✧ VT42/10

Variations

  • hlōna ✧ PE17/136 (hlōna); VT48/27 (hlōna)
  • lōn ✧ PE17/137 (lōn); PE17/137; VT48/28; VT48/28 (lōn)
  • lōne ✧ PE17/137 (lōne); PE17/137; VT48/28; VT48/28
  • ✧ PE17/137; VT48/28
  • lūn ✧ PE17/137; VT48/28
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linya

pool

linya noun "pool" (LIN1)

lúna

dark

lúna adj. *"dark" in Lúnaturco and Taras Lúna, Quenya names of Barad-dûr (Dark Tower). (PE17:22). In the Etymologies, lúnë "blue" was changed by Tolkien from lúna (VT45:29).

morna

dark, black

morna adj. "dark, black" (Letters:282, LT1:261; also used of black hair, PE17:154), or "gloomy, sombre" (MOR). Used as noun in the phrase mi…morna of someone clad "in…black" (PE17:71). In tumbalemorna (Letters:282), q.v. Pl. mornë in Markirya**(the first version of this poem had "green rocks", MC:215, changed to ondolisse mornë** "upon dark rocks" in the final version; see MC:220, note 8).

hróva

dark, dark brown

hróva adj. "dark, dark brown", used to refer to hair (PE17:154)

nendë

pool

nendë (1) noun "pool" (NEN), "lake" (PE17:52)

ulca

adjective. dark

dark, gloomy, sinister

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móri

dark

móri adj. "dark" (MC:221; this is "Qenya"; in Tolkien's later Quenya mórë, morë)

nulla

dark, dusky, obscure

nulla adj. "dark, dusky, obscure" (NDUL), "secret" (DUL). See also VT45:11.

núla

dark, occult, mysterious

núla ("ñ")adj. "dark, occult, mysterious" (PE17:125)

lúrëa

dark, overcast

lúrëa adj. "dark, overcast" (LT1:259)

tol

island, isle

tol noun "island, isle" (rising with sheer sides from the sea or from the river, SA:tol, VT47:26). In early "Qenya", the word was defined as "island, any rise standing alone in water, plain of green, etc" (LT1:269). The stem is toll-; the Etymologies as published in LR gives the pl. "tolle" (TOL2), but this is a misreading for tolli (see VT46:19 and compare LT1:85). The primitive form of tol is variously cited as ¤tolla (VT47:26) and ¤tollo (TOL2).

morĭ

adjective. dark

PQ. dark

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mori-

dark, black

mori- "dark, black" in a number of compounds (independent form morë, q.v.):Morimando "Dark Mando" = Mandos (MBAD, VT45:33), morimaitë "black-handed" (LotR3:VI ch. 6, VT49:42). Moriquendi "Dark Elves" (SA:mor, WJ:361, 373), Moringotto "Black Foe", Sindarin Morgoth, later name of Melkor. The oldest form is said to have been Moriñgotho (MR:194). In late material, Tolkien is seen to consider both Moringotto and Moricotto _("k") _as the Quenya form of the name Morgoth (VT49:24-25; Moricotto also appears in the ablative, Moricottollo). Morion "the dark one", a title of Morgoth (FS). Morifinwë "dark Finwë", masc. name; he was called Caranthir in Sindarin (short Quenya name Moryo). (PM:353) In the name Morinehtar, translated "Darkness-slayer", the initial element is defined would thus seem to signify "darkness" rather than "dark" as an adjective (see mórë). (PM:384, 385)

lóna

adjective. soaked, drenched

Cognates

  • S. loen “soaking wet, swamped”
  • T. logna “soaking wet, swamped”

Derivations

  • logna “soaking wet, swamped”
    • LOG “wet (and soft), soaked, swampy” ✧ VT42/10
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