A variant name for Echoriath appearing in Tolkien’s “Unfinished Index” of The Lord of the Rings (RC/621), a combination of the plural form of orod “mountain” and echor “encircling”.
Sindarin
echor
noun/adjective. outer circle; encircling
echor
noun. outer circle, encircling, outer ring
echoriath
place name. Encircling Mountains, (lit.) Encircling Fence
eryd echor
place name. Encircling Mountains
echor
ring
(outer ring or circle) echor (pl. echyr). It is unclear what the Sindarin word for an ornamental ring is; the cognate of Quenya corma would be *corf (i gorf, o chorf; pl. cyrf, i chyrf, coll. pl. corvath).
echor
outer ring/circle
echor (pl. echyr)
echor
ring
(pl. echyr). It is unclear what the Sindarin word for an ornamental ring is; the cognate of Quenya corma would be ✱corf (i gorf, o chorf; pl. cyrf, i chyrf, coll. pl. corvath).
echor
circle
(pl. echyr)
echor
outer ring/circle
(pl. echyr)
Echoriad
place name. Echoriad (name)
Echoriad
Echoriad
Echoriath is Sindarin. It means "encircling fence", from echor "encircling" and iâth "fence". Christopher Tolkien mentioned that his father's intent was to rename the Echoriath as Echoriad, but perhaps this knowledge eluded him while publishing The Silmarillion. In his Unfinished index of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien gave an alternate name for the Encircling Mountains: Eryd Echor, using the plural eryd of the Sindarin word orod "mountain".
rind
circle
1) rind (construct rin; no distinct pl. form except with article: idh rind), coll. pl. rinnath. 2) corn (i gorn, o chorn), pl. cyrn (i chyrn). The word is also used as an adj. "circular, round, globed", 3) (outer ring or circle) echor (pl. echyr), 4) ringorn, pl. ringyrn (idh ringyrn)
rind
noun. circle
ringorn
noun. circle
corn
circle
(i gorn, o chorn), pl. cyrn (i chyrn). The word is also used as an adj. "circular, round, globed"
corod Reconstructed
noun. circle
rind
noun. circle
rind
circle
(construct rin; no distinct pl. form except with article: idh rind), coll. pl. rinnath.
ringorn
noun. circle
ringorn
circle
pl. ringyrn (idh ringyrn)
The mountains around Gondolin, translated “Encircling Mountains” (S/138). This name is a compound of echor “encircling” (SA/echor) and iath “fence”, hence its literal meaning is “Encircling Fence”.
Conceptual Development: In the earliest Lost Tales, these mountains were called G. Heborodin “Encircling Hills” (LT2/166). In the tale “The Wanderings of Húrin” from the late 1950s, Tolkien changed the name to Echoriad (meaning unclear), but Christopher Tolkien retained the earlier but more common form Echoriath in the published version of The Silmarillion (WJ/271, 302 note 27).