|1| 2 |3|4|5| |manwe|herunūmen|{herunūmen >>} Nūmekundo|númeheruvi| |ilu|{ilu >> eru >>}|arda| |terhante|{terhante >>} askante|sakkante| | |...|{... >>}|lenéme| | |Ilúvatáren|
Qenya
númeheru
proper name. Lords-of-West, Powers of the West
númeheruvi arda sakkante lenéme ilúvatáren
the Lords of the West broke the world by leave of Ilúvatar
A term for the Valar as Lords of the West from various stories about Númenor from the 1940s (SD/246, 290, 311). This name is a compound of númen “west” and heru “lord”.
Conceptual Development: ᴹQ. Númekundo was an earlier variant of this name using kundu “prince” instead of heru “lord” (SD/311).