From Old English glaedene, "gladden" is another name for the "flag" or "iris", now usually spelt gladdon. Tolkien suggested to translators to avoid if possible the 'learned' name iris.
Noldorin
palath-ledin
place name. Gladden Fields
palath-ledin
place name. Gladden Fields
loeg ningloron
place name. Gladden Fields
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Gladden Fields
Gladden Fields
From Old English glaedene, "gladden" is another name for the "flag" or "iris", now usually spelt gladdon. Tolkien suggested to translators to avoid if possible the 'learned' name iris.
Earliest Elvish name for the Gladden Fields appearing in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s (TI/114), a combination of palath “iris” and a plural (possibly Ilkorin) form of lhad “plain”, as suggested by Roman Rausch (EE/2.8).