and (“long”) + rath (“course, passage”)
Sindarin
andrath
place name. Long Climb [or Long Street]
Andrath
noun. long climb
Andrath
Andrath (name)
Andrath means "Long Climb", apparently consisting of the Sindarin elements and + rath.
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Andrath
Long Climb
Andrath
long climb
andrath (high pass), pl. endraith,
Andrath
long climb
andrath (high pass), pl. endraith.
Andrath
high pass
andrath (literally "long climb"), pl. endraith.
andrath
high pass
(literally "long climb"), pl. endraith.
andrath
long climb
(high pass), pl. endraith,
gondrath
highway
(i ’ondrath) (street of stone, causeway), pl. gendraith (i ngendraith = i ñendraith). Archaic pl. göndreith. (WJ:340). Possibly the pl. can also be gondraith, without umlaut of the first element.
rath
climbing path
(street, course, riverbed), pl. raist (idh raist) (UT:255)
or
high
(adjectival pref.) or- (above, over), also ar- (noble, royal). In the form ar(a)- this is an element in the names of the kings of Arnor and Arthedain. Nouns:
Ara-
prefix. high, noble, royal
ar-
prefix. high, noble, royal
brand
tall
(lofty, noble, fine), lenited vrand, pl. braind.
duinen
high tide
(i dhuinen), pl. duinin (i nuinin). (VT48:26).
hall
tall
(exalted); lenited chall; pl. hail. Note: a homophone means ”veiled, hidden, shadowed, shady”.
or
high
(above, over), also ar- (noble, royal). In the form ar(a)- this is an element in the names of the kings of Arnor and Arthedain. Nouns:
raud
tall
(eminent, noble), in compounds -rod, pl. roed. Also used as noun ”champion, eminent man, [a] noble”.
taur
tall
(also tor-, tar- in compounds) (lofty, high, sublime, noble; vast, masterful, mighty, overwhelming, huge, awful), lenited daur, pl. toer. Note: homophones mean ”king (of a people)” and also ”great wood, forest”.
telu
high roof
(i delu, o thelu) (dome), pl. tely (i thely).
This name was used to two distinct tracks. The first is a road crossing the Greenway between the Barrow-downs and the South Downs (UT/348) and running from ancient Fornost down to Tharbad (TI/305). The second is the pass from Rivendell over the Misty Mountains translated by Christopher Tolkien as “long climb” (UT/271, 278 note #4). This name is a combination of and “long” and rath “(climbing) street”.
Conceptual Development: The road crossing the Greenway was first mentioned in Lord of the Rings drafts with the name N. Amrath (perhaps “✱up-course”), soon changed to Andrath (TI/72, 79). It also appeared on draft maps for the Lord of the Rings (TI/298, 305), but the name did not appear in the published book or its maps. The road was mentioned again in Tolkien’s private essays on “The Hunt for the Ring” (UT/348). I believe Tolkien intended name this road crossing the Greenway to mean something like “✱Long Street or Long Course”.
In a different essay on “The Disaster at Gladden Fields”, the name Andrath was applied to the “high-climbing pass” over the Misty Mountains [named only in this essay], the pass that Bilbo and the Dwarves used in the Hobbit, more fully named Cirith Forn en Andrath; Christopher Tolkien suggested in this second instance it meant “long climb” (UT/271, 278 note #4).