Edouard Kloczko wondered



> how others do interpret the following:

>

> ÓNI, ONYE  "you (both) with me" or simply "(you) with me".



In an appended comment Patrick Wynne noted that the

phrasing of the question apparently



> assumed that _ó-_ here must have a dual

> sense, as described in "Quendi and Eldar", referring to "the

> meeting, junction, or union of two things or persons, or of

> two groups thought of as units" (XI:367).



To take up this thread, it is worth noting that Tolkien in L 212,

the letter to Rhona Beare in October 1958, quotes the word

_olassie_ 'foliage' (paragraph 21; L:282), where _o-_ does not

have the dual, or rather bilateral, sense elaborated in "Quendi

and Eldar". It seems likely that this sense was a new idea arising

in the writing of "Quendi and Eldar", and thus not originally

present in _omentielmo_ (in the first edition of LR), nor in the

Ataremma group of texts.



Meneg suilaid,



Beregond