S. Lô Dhaer loc. “Great Fen”
Name of a marsh at the junction of the rivers Ringló and Morthond meet appearing in Tolkien’s notes on The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor (VT42/14). It was translated “Great Fen”, but the part of the paragraph where it appeared was rejected. This name is a combination of l(h)ô “fenland” and the lenited form of daer¹ “great”.
Reference ✧ VT42/14 ✧ “Great Fen”
Elements
| l(h)ô | “flood, fenland” | ✧ VT42/14 (Lô) | |
| daer¹ | “great, large” | soft-mutation | ✧ VT42/14 (Dhaer) |