tol-in-gaurhoth

place name. Isle of Werewolves

The name of Tol Sirion after it was inhabited by Sauron and his minions, translated “Isle of Werewolves” (S/156), a combination of tol(l) “island”, the plural in of the definite article i and the class-plural of gaur “werewolf” using the suffix hoth “host” (SA/gaur, hoth).

Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, this name was Tol-na-Gaurhoth (SM/311, LR/284).

Elements

Word	Gloss
tol(l)	“island, (high steep-sided) isle”
i	“the”
gaur	“werewolf”
hoth	“host, horde, host, horde, [N.] crowd; group plural; [ᴱN.] folk, [G.] people; †army”

tol-na-gaurhoth

place name. Isle of Werewolves

Changes

• Tol-na-Gaurhoth → Tol-in-Gaurhoth ✧ LR/300
• Tol-na-Gaurhoth → Tol-in-Gaurhoth ✧ WJI/Tol-in-Gaurhoth