Word of the Day: Hisilóme – a place name, ‘Land of Mist.’ This is from Tolkien’s earlier conceptual periods, which makes sense as it is from The Book of Lost Tales I.
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Under the root HISI QL gives:
- hisë, histë (‘dusk’);
- hisiman (‘land of Twilight’).
The root LOMO has many derivatives, as
- lómë (‘dusk, gloom, darkness’),
- lómëar (‘child of gloom’),
- lómin (‘shade, shadow’),
- lomir (‘I hide’),
- lomba (‘secret’).
In Gnomish: lôm (‘gloom, shade’) lómin (‘shadowy, gloomy and noun “gloom”‘) So Dor Lómin. The same element occurs in Lomendánor (‘days of glooming’)
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