Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
mandu
noun. hell; abyss
mandulómi anta móri ambalar
the East raised black shadows out of hell
mandu túma
the abyss moving
The twenty first line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is mandu “abyss” (more often translated “hell”) followed by the adjective túma “moving”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> mandu túma = “✱abyss moving”
mandu yáme
the abyss yawning
The twenty sixth line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is the noun mandu “abyss” (usually translated “hell”) followed by the adjective yáme “yawning”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> mandu yáme = “✱abyss yawning”
mandor
place name. Hell
mandos
place name. Hell
fatanyu
place name. Hell
heru
noun. lord
The fifteenth phrase (lines 15-16) of the first version of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/221). The first word is a compound of mandu “hell” and the plural of lóme “shadows”. It is followed by the aorist form of the verb anta- “to give”, with the looser English translation “raised”. For some reason the adjective móri “black” (plural form of móre) appears after the verb, with the subject Ambalar “East” as the final word of the phrase.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> mandu-lóm-i anta mór-i Ambalar = “✱hell-shadow-(plural) give black-(plural) East”
Conceptual Development: This phrase appeared in the fourth draft of this poem, using a singular form of the adjective móre “black” and an alternate (definite) word for “East”: n’Ambustar (OM1d: PE16/62). Tolkien switched to the final form of this phrase in the sixth draft (OM1f: PE16/74).