Noldorin 

udûn

place name. Udûn

Noldorin [Ety/TUB; EtyAC/TUB] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Sindarin 

udûn

place name. Dark Pit

Sindarin name of Morgoth’s fortress Q. Utumno (MR/382) translated “Dark Pit” or “Hell” (RC/297), probably a derivative of the same primitive form ✶Utupnu as its Quenya cognate (MR/69). It was also the name of a plain in Mordor (LotR/928).

Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s this name was G. Udum or Uduvna (GL/74), probably derived from the same primitive root ᴱ√TUM(B)U as its (early) Quenya cognate ᴱQ. Utumna (QL/95, LT1A/Utumna). In The Etymologies from the 1930s, N. Udûn had essentially the same form and meaning as the later Sindarin name, though at this stage its primitive form was given as ᴹ✶Utubnu (Ety/TUB).

The vale in Mordor was first called N. Narch or Narch Udûn (SD/34, WR/438).

Sindarin [LotRI/Udûn; MRI/Udûn; RC/297; SA/tum; SD/034; SDI1/Narch; TII/Udûn; WRI/Narch Udûn] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Udûn

utumno

(stronghold of Melkor) Udûn

udûn

hell

(= Utumno, stronghold of Melkor), pl. Uduin if there is a pl. (which is unlikely if Udûn is a proper name)

udûn

utumno

band

hell

1) band (i mand, o mband; construct ban) (custody, prison, safekeeping, duress, doom), pl. baind (i mbaind), coll. pl. bannath. 2) Udûn (= Utumno, stronghold of Melkor), pl. Uduin if there is a pl. (which is unlikely if Udûn is a proper name)

band

hell

(i mand, o mband; construct ban) (custody, prison, safekeeping, duress, doom), pl. baind (i mbaind), coll. pl. bannath.

Quenya 

fatanyu

hell

fatanyu noun "hell" (GL:51)

Nandorin 

Utum

noun. Utumno

Melkor's first stronghold. The primitive form is given as Utubnu, derived from a stem TUB (LR:394), not defined as such but yielding a series of words that suggest a basic meaning "deep, lowlying". The prefixing of the stem-vowel is a common feature in strengthened primitive forms; the ending -nu seems to be used nowhere else, but Utubnu is clearly to be understood as "very low [place]". The original cluster bn comes out as m in Nandorin; cf. Quenya Utumno. The development is evidently meant to be _Utubnu > Utumnu > *Utumn > Utum_.

Nandorin [H. Fauskanger (LR:394)] < TUB. Published by

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Qenya 

utumno

place name. Utumno

Qenya [Ety/TUB; LR/238; LRI/Utumno; LT1I/Utumna; PE22/127; SDI2/Utumno; SM/240; SMI/Utumna] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

band

noun. hell

inthanfog

place name. Hell

Gnomish [GL/51; GL/69] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Noldorin

band

noun. hell

Early Noldorin [PE13/138] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

fatanyu

place name. Hell

Qenya name for G. Inthanfog “Hell” (GL/51). In might be a compound of “Lowest Air” and some form of tan(y)a “fire”, since its Gnomish equivalent contains G. Tanfa “hot air of the deep places”.

Early Quenya [GL/51] Group: Eldamo. Published by

mandor

place name. Hell

mandos

place name. Hell

Early Quenya [GL/18; GL/21; GL/45; LBI/Mandos; LT1A/Mandos; LT1I/Mandos; LT2I/Mandos; PE14/012; PE15/73; PME/058; PME/099; QL/037; QL/058; QL/099] Group: Eldamo. Published by