Minuial

The Elves had a special connection to starlight, and the times of the Sun's rising (when the stars faded from the sky) and its setting (when the first stars returned) were of particular importance to them. They used the word uial for these times of twilight, with minuial being their word for the twilight of morning before the Sun rose fully into the sky. Especially during the season of spring, minuial was imbued with a symbolic significance, and was seen as representing the awakening of life into the world.

Minuial literally meant 'first twilight', with its counterpart aduial ('second twilight') coming at the end of the day as the Sun sank below the horizon. These names come from the Sindarin language, with their Quenya equivalents being tindómë in the morning and undómë in the evening. In the Shire, minuial was often called 'morrowdim' (with 'morrow' here having its older meaning of 'morning').