Q. ar lumbulë undulávë ilyë tier “and (heavy) shadow swallowed (lit. down-licked) all roads”
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The 11th phrase of the prose Namárië. Tolkien altered the text from the poetic version as follows:
ar ilyë tier undulávë lumbulë >> ar lumbulë undulávë ilyë tier
Tolkien simply swapped the subject lumbulë “(heavy) shadow” with the object ilyë tier “all roads” to be consistent with the usual Quenya subject-verb-object word order.
Reference ✧ RGEO/59 ✧ ar lumbule undu-lāve ilye tiër “and (heavy) shadow down-licked all (pl) roads”
Elements
| ar | “and” | ✧ RGEO/59 | |
| lumbulë | “dark shadow, heavy shadow; deep in shadow” | ✧ RGEO/59 | |
| undulav- | “to drown, swallow, submerge, (lit.) lick down” | past | |
| ilya | “every, each, all (of a particular group of things)” | plural | ✧ RGEO/59 (ilye) |
| tië | “path, road, way, line” | plural | ✧ RGEO/59 (tiër) |
| undu | “down, under” | ✧ RGEO/59 | |
| lav- | “to lick” | past | ✧ RGEO/59 (lāve) |
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