bar (“house”) + en (gen. article) + #dan (“back”) +#gwedh (“bond”) #We would expect it to be Bar-e-Ndanwedh, but this could be a dialectal variant of the name
Sindarin
bar-en-danwedh
place name. House of Ransom
Elements
Word Gloss bâr “house, dwelling, home, house, dwelling, home; [N.] earth” en “of the” danwedh “ransom”
Bar-en-Danwedh
noun. house of ransom
The name that Mîm gave to his home after he was forced to give it to Túrin in exchange for his life, translated “House of Ransom” (S/203). The initial element of the name is bâr “house” (SA/bar), followed by en “of” and danwedh “ransom”.