cormallen

place name. Golden Circle

A field in Ithilien where the victory of the War of the Ring was celebrated (LotR/948). In his “Unfinished Index” of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien translated this name as “Golden Circle”, a combination of cor “ring” and mallen “golden” (RC/625).

Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, this name first appeared as N. Kormallen (SD/55).

Cormallen

noun. golden circle

corn (“round”) + mal(d) (“gold”) + en (adjective suffix)

praises of cormallen

Praises of Cormallen

The Sindarin phrases from the exaltation of Frodo and Sam on the field of Cormallen (LotR/953, translated Let/308). @@@

Field of Cormallen

Field of Cormallen

The name Cormallen is Sindarin and means "golden circle" (from cor, "ring" and mallen "gold"). Apparently the name derived from the tree culumalda. The Gondorians likely used the name Cormalthen as in Gondor Sindarin compounds retained the spirant. The spelling Cormallen follows the "proper" Elvish Sindarin, malt ("gold") and ending -en became *mallen, however in Gondor this remained malthen.