uvanwaith

place name. Nomenlands

The “Nomenlands” between the Border Hills (later called Emyn Muil) and Mordor in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s (TI/281). The initial element ú- is probably the negative suffix, and the final element is probably a lenited variant of gweith used of both people and lands, but the meaning of the middle element is unclear. Roman Rausch suggested it might be anw “male” or a lenited form of man “someone” (EE/2.42).

Elements

Word	Gloss
uvan	“*noone, nobody”
gweith	“manhood; man-power, troop of able bodied men, host, regiment”