Noldorin 

eredlómin

place name. Echoing Mountains

Elements

WordGloss
orod“mountain”
lómen“echoing”

Variations

  • Ered Lómin ✧ Ety/LAM
  • Ered-lómin ✧ LR/249
Noldorin [Ety/LAM; LR/117; LR/249; LR/259; LRI/Eredlómin; SM/268] Group: Eldamo. Published by

eryd-lómin

place name. Mountains of Shadow

Changes

  • Eryd-LóminEredwethion ✧ SM/140
  • Eryd LóminEredwethion ✧ SM/221
  • EredlóminEredwethion ✧ SMI/Eredlómin
  • EredlóminEredwethion ✧ SMI/Eredwethion

Elements

WordGloss
orod“mountain”
lómin“shady, shadowy, gloomy; gloom(iness)”

Variations

  • Eredlúmin ✧ LR/405; LRI/Eredlómin
  • Eryd Lómin ✧ SM/221
  • Erydlómin ✧ SM/296; SMI/Eredlómin
  • Eredlómin ✧ SMI/Eredlómin; SMI/Eredwethion
  • Eredlómen ✧ SMI/Eredlómin
Noldorin [LR/405; LRI/Eredlómin; SM/139; SM/140; SM/221; SM/296; SMI/Eredlómin; SMI/Eredwethion] Group: Eldamo. Published by

eredlemrin

place name. Echoing Mountains

A “pure Noldorin” name for Eredlómin appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s as a combination of the plural of orod “mountain” and the lenited plural of glamren “echoing” (Ety/GLAM, LOM, ÓROT).

Conceptual Development: In the entry for the root ᴹ√LAM it first appeared as (rejected) Eredlamrin (EtyAC/LAM).

Changes

  • EredlamrinEredlemrin ✧ Ety/LAM

Elements

WordGloss
orod“mountain”
glamren“echoing”

Variations

  • Eredlamrin ✧ EtyAC/LAM (Eredlamrin)
Noldorin [Ety/GLAM; Ety/LAM; Ety/ÓROT; EtyAC/LAM] Group: Eldamo. Published by

hebel dúath

place name. Mountains of Shadow

Earlier name of the Mountains of Shadow in Morder in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s (WR/122, 180), a combination of hebel (“?fence”) and dú(w)ath “night-shade”.

Changes

  • Hebel DúathEphel Dúath “Mountains of Shadow” ✧ WR/122
  • Hebel DúathEphel Dúath ✧ WR/180

Elements

WordGloss
hebel“?fence”
dú(w)ath“night-shade”
Noldorin [WR/122; WR/180; WRI/Ephel Dúath] Group: Eldamo. Published by