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pelennor

noun. fenced land

_ n. _fenced land.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:95] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

pelennor

fenced land

n. fenced land. . This gloss was rejected.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:65] < PEL edge, bound, fence, limit + ?. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

pelennor

place name. Fenced Land

The walled region around Minas Tirith (LotR/749), translated “Fenced Land” (PE17/65, 95; RC/512), a combination of pêl “fenced field” (SA/pel) and dôr “land”.

Possible Etymology: David Salo suggested that its initial element could have developed from an archaic older form of pêl: ✶peles- ⇒ OS. peleh-ndore (GS/388), which explains its initial form Pelen-. See below for possible phonetic developments.

Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, this name first appeared as N. Pelennor (WR/268).

Derivations

  • PEL “fence, border, edge; bound, limit; go round, encircle, fence, border, edge; bound, limit; go round, encircle; [ᴹ√] revolve on fixed point” ✧ PE17/065

Elements

WordGloss
pêl“*fenced field, [N.] fenced field”
dôr“land, land, [N.] region where certain people live, [ᴱN.] country; [G.] people of the land”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
PEL > pelennor[pelesendore] > [pelehendore] > [pelehendor] > [pelendor] > [pelennor]✧ PE17/065

Variations

  • pelennor ✧ PE17/065; PE17/095
Sindarin [LotRI/Pelennor; PE17/065; PE17/095; PMI/Pelennor; RC/512; SA/pel; UTI/Pelennor] Group: Eldamo. Published by

pelennor

noun. fenced inner land

pel (from stem pel- “go round, revolve”) + end (from enedh “middle”) + (n-)dor (“land, dwelling”)

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