Fumellar

Fumellar, the flowers of sleep, were poppies according to the early version of the legendarium in The Book of Lost Tales.

They grew in the gardens of Lórien in Valinor. The fumellar are said to have glowed "redly in the dusk". The Vala Lórien often used them in his enchantments.

Etymology

The name fumellar is Qenya: fúmella, fúmellot means "poppy". The first element is related to fúmë ("sleep"; noun). Variant Gnomish names for "poppy" are humilos, humlos, humethla, and humloth.

Other occurences

In early linguistic writings, Tethil was a Gnomish name for a flower fay that dwelt in a poppy.

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