defile, pass between high walls; ag- (S agor “narrow”) + lond (“pass”)
Sindarin
aglon
place name. Narrow Pass
Aglon(d)
noun. Aglon(d)
aglonn
noun. defile, pass between high walls
aglonn
defile
(noun) aglonn (pass between high walls), pl. eglynn.
aglonn
pass between high walls
aglonn (defile), pl. eglynn;
aglonn
pass between high walls
aglonn (defile), pl. eglynn.
aglonn
pass between high walls
(defile), pl. eglynn.
aglonn
defile
(pass between high walls), pl. eglynn.
aglonn
pass between high walls
(defile), pl. eglynn;
ram
noun. wall
ram
noun. wall
The Sindarin word for “wall”, an element in several names such as Andram “Long Wall” and Ramdal “Wall’s End” (S/122).
Conceptual Development: The word was N. rham “wall” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, where it was derived from ᴹ✶rambā under the root ᴹ√RAB (Ety/RAMBĀ; EtyAC/RAMBĀ). The root form did not appear in The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road (LR/382), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne noted the actual root in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/10). The rh in the 1930s Noldorin form was because initial r was unvoiced in Noldorin, something that was not the case in later Sindarin.
The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. bant “wall” appearing between G. bada- “build” and G. bad “building”, so perhaps derived from an early root ✱ᴱ√BATA (GL/21).
cirith
pass
(noun) 1) cirith (i girith, o chirith) (cleft, cutting), no distinct pl. form except with article (i chirith), 2) lond (harbour, haven, strait; narrow path), pl. lynd, coll. pl. lonnath (as in the name Lonnath Ernin, WR:294). 3) (pass between mountains, hills or through trackless forest) imrad (path), pl. imraid.
cirith
pass
(i girith, o chirith) (cleft, cutting), no distinct pl. form except with article (i chirith)
cîl
pass between hills
(i gîl, o chîl) (cleft, gorge), no distinct pl. form except with article (i chîl), coll. pl. cíliath. . A homophone means ”renewal”.
imrad
pass
(path), pl. imraid.
lond
pass
(harbour, haven, strait; narrow path), pl. lynd, coll. pl. lonnath (as in the name Lonnath Ernin, WR:294).
ram
wall
1) ram, pl. raim (idh raim), coll. pl. rammath; 2) rammas, pl. remmais (idh remmais), coll. pl. rammassath.
ram
wall
pl. raim (idh raim), coll. pl. rammath
rammas
wall
pl. remmais (idh remmais), coll. pl. rammassath.
thangail
shield wall
(shield wall). No distinct pl. form? (UT:281)
A pass between Himring and Dorthonion (S/123). This name seems to be a compound of [N.] agor “narrow” and lond “strait, pass” (Ety/AK, LOND). This name sometimes appeared as Aglond, probably an older form of the name (WJ/338, Ety/AK).
Conceptual Development: The name ᴱN. Aglon first appeared in the Lays of Beleriand from the 1920s (LB/227) and N. Aglon was used in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (LR/127, 265). In The Etymologies, it was translated as “defile, pass between high walls”, and this was the source of the derivation given above (Ety/AK, LOD).