Q. ar sindanóriello mornië caita “and from a grey country darkness lies”
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The 12th phrase of the prose Namárië. Tolkien altered the text from the poetic version as follows:
ar sindanóriello caita mornië >> ar sindanóriello mornië caita
Tolkien simply moved the subject mornië “darkness” before the verb caita “lies” to be consistent with the usual Quenya subject-verb-object word order.
Reference ✧ RGEO/59 ✧ ar sinda-nōrie-llo mornië caita “and grey-country-from darkness lies”
Elements
| ar | “and” | ✧ RGEO/59 | |
| Sindanórië | “Grey Country, Land of Greyness” | ablative | ✧ RGEO/59 (sinda-nōrie-llo) |
| mornië | “darkness, blackness” | ✧ RGEO/59 | |
| caita-¹ | “to lie (down)” | aorist | ✧ RGEO/59 |
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