gond (“great stone, rock”) + (-n)dor (“land, dwelling”)
Sindarin
gondor
place name. Stone-land
Gondor
noun. stone land
Gondor
'Stone-land'
topon. 'Stone-land'. A name given because of the abundance of gond, stone in Ered Nimrais, and the great use made of it by the Southern Dúnedain. Q Ondonóre. >> gond
harondor
place name. Southern Gondor
The Sindarin name of South Gondor, which appears on the 1st Edition maps for The Lord of the Rings from 1954 (RC/lxiii), but only in its English translation in later Lord of the Rings maps (1980 forward). This region was once a province of Gondor, but became a disputed region when Umbar broke free of Gondorian rule. It is a compound of the prefixal form har- of harn “south” and the lenited form of Gondor.
aran gondor ar arnor ar hîr i mbair annui
king of Gondor and Arnor and Lord of the Westlands
Gondor
Gondor
In earlier times, it was called the South Kingdom, or Hyaralondie, Hyallondie and Turmen Hyallondiéva in Quenya, and Arthor na Challonnas in Sindarin from the Númenórean point of view: the elements londie and lonnas mean "harbour, landing". The name Gondor was likely adopted from the lesser people's terminology and translates from Sindarin as "Stone-land", from the words gond, "stone", and (n)dor, "land". The (generally not used) Quenya form of the name was Ondonóre. Gondor received its name because of the abundance of stone in the Ered Nimrais, and the usage of it in great stone cities, statues, and monuments, such as Minas Tirith and the Argonath. In Rohan, it was known as Stoningland (a modernization of Old English Stāning-(land)), and Ghân-buri-Ghân of the Drúedain also recognized their use of stone.
lebethron
noun. name of a hard-wood tree growing in Gondor
n. Bot. name of a hard-wood tree growing in Gondor (Ithilien). Q lepetta. Also used as word for the wood which took a high polish, lebethorn being altered to lebethron and associated with RUN 'rub, grind, smooth, polish'. >> ron. This gloss was rejected.
canath
noun. "quarter", silver coin used in Gondor, the fourth part of a "mirian"
lebethron
noun. a tree - its black wood was used by the woodwrights of Gondor
In the original manuscript, one of the earlier (rejected) form of this name was lebendron. Didier Willis proposed the etymology lebed+doron "finger-oak", actually a real tree name (Finger Oak or Quercus digitata)
mirian
noun. piece of money, coin used in Gondor
Barahir (Steward of Gondor)
Barahir (Steward of Gondor)
Barahir is a Sindarin word and consists of bara ("fiery; eager") + hîr ("master, lord").
Baranor (man of Gondor)
Baranor (man of Gondor)
Baranor was likely named after the first name Man of the same name. It could mean various things:
Harlond (Gondor)
Harlond (Gondor)
The Sindarin name Harlond means means "Southhaven".
Southern kingdom of the Dúnedain (LotR/242), a combination of gond “stone” and dôr “land” (SA/gond, dôr).
Conceptual Development: This land was first mentioned as ᴹQ. Ondor in the 1930s in drafts of the tale of the Fall of Númenor (LR/33). While this name could be Noldorin, linguistic notes from the 1940s indicate it was Quenya (PE22/125). In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, it first appeared as ᴹQ. Ond (R/381), revised to Ondor (TI/146) and finally Gondor (TI/423).