métima
last
métima
adjective. last, ultimate, final
A word for “last, ultimate, final” from the 1960s version of the Markirya poem (MC/221-222), clearly based on the root √MET “end, finality”.
Conceptual Development: The version of the poem from around 1930 had ᴱQ. oilima “last” instead (MC/213-214). It had variants oilin and ᴱQ. oilimaite appearing drafts (PE16/62; MC/221), the latter with additional glosses “final, ultimate” (PE16/75).
métima hrestallo círa
leave the last shore
The second line of the Markirya poem (MC/221). The first word is métima “last”, followed by the ablative of hresta “beach” and the present tense of the verb cir- “to cut”. The sense of the ablative (“from”) is not reflected in the English translation of the phrase. Helge Fauskanger suggested that in this context, the verb cir- might mean “sail” (AL/Markirya, QQ/círa), which is consistent with the verb usage in the Early Qenya versions of the poem, but I think círa might have a sense like “cleaving [from]”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> métima hresta-llo cír-a = “✱last beach-from cleave-(present)”
métim’ auressë
in the last morning
The thirty-seventh line of the Markirya poem (MC/222). The first word is the adjective métima “last” with the final vowel elided because of the initial a in the next word, which is the locative form of the noun aurë “morning” (more commonly “day”).
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> métim’ aure-ssë = “✱last morning-in”
Conceptual Development: In the first draft, Tolkien did not elide the adjective métima, and used a different word for “morning”: amaurëa (MC/222).
métima adj. "last" (Markirya), in Markirya also twice métim', since the following words (auressë, andúnë) begin in an a.