A soldier of Gondor (LotR/659).
Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, Tolkien said this name was “take[n] from tales of the old days” (WR/160), referring to N. Damrod, name of a son of Fëanor from this period of Tolkien’s writing. This other Damrod was called S. Amrod in Tolkien’s later writing, but the Gondorian Damrod survived into the published version of The Lord of the Rings. It is possible the surviving Damrod had the same meaning as the original, “hammerer of copper” (Ety/NDAM).
metal hammer; (n-)dam (“hammer, beat”) + raud (“metal”) S form of Q Nambarauto; the second element was changed from earlier “copper”[Etym. RAUTĀ-]