S. Harondor loc. “Southern Gondor”

S. Harondor, loc. “Southern Gondor”
The Sindarin name of South Gondor, which appears on the 1st Edition maps for The Lord of the Rings from 1954 (RC/lxiii), but only in its English translation in later Lord of the Rings maps (1980 forward). This region was once a province of Gondor, but became a disputed region when Umbar broke free of Gondorian rule. It is a compound of the prefixal form har- of harn “south” and the lenited form of Gondor.

References ✧ RC/lxiii; TI/310; TII

Glosses

Elements

harn “south, southern”
Gondor “Stone-land” soft-mutation ✧ TI/310