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