morn is a Sindarin adjective meaning "black, dark".[1][2][3]
Etymology
Lenition
The lenited form vorn (m > v) apparently appears in Eryn Vorn ("Blackwood").[4][5] It is also likely seen in the compound galvorn and perhaps also in Aravorn.[6]
Examples
- Drego morn! = "Flee night!"
- Morben = "Dark-folk"
- Mordor = "Black Land"
- Mordu = "Black Night"
- morgul = "black arts, sorcery"
- Mormegil = "Black Sword"
- Moria = "Black Chasm"
- Mornan = "Dark Vale"
- Ras Morthil = "Black-point Cape"
Other versions
In the published Etymologies appeared the Noldorin word moru ("black").[7] That spelling, however, was a misreading of the original manuscript, and has been corrected to morn.[8]
Cognates
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 297, (dated August 1967), p. 382
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 347, (dated 17 December 1972), p. 427
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Four. Quendi and Eldar: A. The principal linguistic elements concerned", p. 362, entry "*KWEN"
- ↑ Helge Fauskanger, "Sindarin - the Noble Tongue: I. Soft Mutation" at Ardalambion (accessed 8 June 2011)
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. lxv
- ↑ "Compound Sindarin Names in Middle-earth" at Tolkiendil.com (accessed 8 June 2011)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", entry "MOR"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies — Part One" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 45, November 2003, p. 35