lumbulë

noun. dark shadow, heavy shadow; deep in shadow

A noun used in the Namárië poem and loosely translated as “deep in shadow” (LotR/377), but more accurately “heavy shadow, dark shadow” (PE17/72, 168; RGEO/59). It is a derivative of the root √LUB “shadow” (PE17/168), perhaps an elaboration of ᴹQ. lumbe “gloom, shadow” from The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/LUM).

Neo-Quenya: Based on its use, I suspect lumbulë refers to a great expanse of shadow (“shadowness”) rather than an individual cast shadow, which is Q. hala.

Derivations

• √LUB “shadow, darkness” ✧ PE17/168

Element in

• Q. ar ilyë tier undulávë lumbulë “and all paths are drowned deep in shadow” ✧ LotR/0377; RGEO/58
• Q. ar lumbulë undulávë ilyë tier “and (heavy) shadow swallowed (lit. down-licked) all roads” ✧ RGEO/59

Elements

Word	Gloss
lumbe	“gloom, shadow”
-lë	“abstract noun, adverb”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√LUM > lumbule	[lumbule]	✧ PE17/168

Variations

• lumbule ✧ PE17/072; PE17/072; PE17/072; PE17/168; RGEO/59
• lúmbulè ✧ RGEO/58

lumbulë

(heavy) shadow

lumbulë noun "(heavy) shadow" (Nam, RGEO:67, PE17:168)

Lumbar

lumbar

Lumbar name of a star (or planet), tentatively identified with Saturn (MR:435), evidently connected to lumbo, lumbulë (Silm)