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!

Early Quenya

telume

noun. the heavens, (vault of) heaven, firmament

Early Quenya [MC/214; MC/221; PE16/062; PE16/065; PE16/072; PE16/074; PE16/075; PE16/142] Group: Eldamo. Published by

telúme

noun. finish, conclusion, (the great) end

Early Quenya [PE13/104; PME/091; QL/091] Group: Eldamo. Published by

telume lungane

the heavens bending

The twenty third line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is the noun telume “heavens” followed by the “bare stem” infinitive form of the verb lunga(na)- “to bend”, as suggested by Gilson, Welden, and Hostetter (PE16/84, notes on line #10 and #11), apparently functioning as either an active-participle or a verbal object.

Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:

> telume lunga-ne = “✱heavens bend-ing”

Early Quenya [MC/214] Group: Eldamo. Published by

irmina telume

proper name. End of the World, Great End

A name for the end of the world in an early name list (PE13/104), a combination of a (early?) genitive form of irmin “world” with telúme “end”. In the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa from the 1910s, the world telúme by itself was glossed “the great end” (PME/91).

Early Quenya [PE13/104] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tel

noun. roof

Early Quenya [LT1A/Telimektar; QL/090] Group: Eldamo. Published by