A word for “home land, native land” appearing in notes from the 1960s discussing the root √MBAR, a combination of bâr “dwelling” with dôr “land” (PE17/164). Tolkien gave an archaic pseudo-form bar-ndor to explain why the d in this word did not mutate to dh (c.f. bardh), stating that it was similar to Mordor < mor-ndor, where the ancient medial n prevented the mutation of d, then the vanished later.
A word for “home land, native land” appearing in notes from the 1960s discussing the root √MBAR, a combination of bâr “dwelling” with dôr “land” (PE17/164). Tolkien gave an archaic pseudo-form bar-ndor to explain why the d in this word did not mutate to dh (c.f. bardh), stating that it was similar to Mordor < mor-ndor, where the ancient medial n prevented the mutation of d, then the vanished later.