Ilk. Dorthonion loc. “Land of Pines”

Ilk. Dorthonion loc. “Land of Pines”
See S. Dorthonion for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/THŌN; LR/145, 257, 405; LRI; SMI; TII

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dôr “land” ✧ Ety/THŌN (Dor)
thôn “pine-tree” genitive plural ✧ Ety/THŌN (thonion); LR/405 (thanion)

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N. Taur-na-Danion loc. “Forest of Pines”

Earliest name of Dorthonion in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, first appearing as Taur Danin (SM/197) and later expanded to Taur-na-Danion (LR/127) with variants -Thanion, -Donion, -Thonion before ultimately being replaced by the Ilkorin name Dorthonion (LR/145). It is a combination of taur¹ “forest”, na “of” and early variants of thaun “pine”, possibly as an earlier Gnomish-style genitive plural.

See S. Dorthonion for further discussion.

References ✧ LR/127, 145; LRI; SM/197, 296, 330; SMI/Dorthonion, Taur-na-Danion

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taur¹ “forest, great wood”
na “with, by; of”
thaun “pine-tree”