A name for the southern part of Lindon (PM/313), a combination of that name with the prefixal form har- of harn “south”.
Conceptual Development: The name N. Harlindon appeared on the draft maps for Lord of the Rings from the 1940s (TI/302).
Sindarin
Harlindon
noun. Harlindon
harlindon
place name. Lindon south of the Gulf of Lune
Elements
Word Gloss harn “south, southern” Lindon “Land of Music”
South(ern) Lindon; har (from harad “south”) + lindon (Ilk. “musical land”) Ilk. probably explains the intervocalic nd instead of nn, for the Etym. also gives another form lhinnon #closer to TA S? Later was probably reconsidered to be derived from lindânâ [HKF] “[the land] of the lindar”.