rath dínen

place name. Silent Street

A street in Minas Tirith translated “Silent Street” (LotR/826), a combination of rath “street” and (possibly lenited) dínen “silent” (RC/551).

Conceptual Development: When it first appeared in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, this name was already Rath Dínen (WR/288).

Elements

Word	Gloss
rath	“street, street; [N.] course, river-bed”
dínen	“silent”