raumo
(noise of a) storm
raumo
noun. (noise of a) storm
A word for “storm” in the version of the Markirya poem from the 1960s (MC/222), more accurately “(noise of a) storm” (MC/223). It may be related to the root ᴹ√RAW “✱roar”.
Conceptual Development: In the ᴱQ. Oilima Markirya poem from circa 1930, the word was ᴱQ. húro instead (MC/214), possibly related to ᴱN. huiriaith “gale” from the early root ᴱ√SURU (PE13/148). ᴱQ. laume “storm, overcast sky” from Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s is another possible precursor.
raumo nurrua
the storm mumbling
The twenty-first line of the Markirya poem (MC/222). The first word is raumo “storm” followed an adjectival form of nurru- “to mumble”.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> raumo nurru-a = “✱storm mumbl-ing”
Conceptual Development: In the first draft, Tolkien used an active-participle form nurrula, which he retained initially in the second draft before changing it into a more generic adjectival form nurrua (MC/222).
raumo noun "(noise of a) storm" (Markirya)