Word of the Day: Hisilóme

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.

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’)