Earlier name of the Mountains of Shadow in Morder in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s (WR/122, 180), a combination of hebel (“?fence”) and dú(w)ath “night-shade”.
Noldorin
eredlómin
place name. Echoing Mountains
Elements
Word Gloss orod “mountain” lómen “echoing” Variations
- Ered Lómin ✧ Ety/LAM
- Ered-lómin ✧ LR/249
eryd-lómin
place name. Mountains of Shadow
Changes
Eryd-Lómin→ Eredwethion ✧ SM/140- Eryd Lómin → Eredwethion ✧ SM/221
- Eredlómin → Eredwethion ✧ SMI/Eredlómin
- Eredlómin → Eredwethion ✧ SMI/Eredwethion
Elements
Word Gloss orod “mountain” lómin “shady, shadowy, gloomy; gloom(iness)” Variations
- Eredlúmin ✧ LR/405; LRI/Eredlómin
- Eryd Lómin ✧ SM/221
- Erydlómin ✧ SM/296; SMI/Eredlómin
- Eredlómin ✧ SMI/Eredlómin; SMI/Eredwethion
- Eredlómen ✧ SMI/Eredlómin
eredlemrin
place name. Echoing Mountains
Changes
Eredlamrin→ Eredlemrin ✧ Ety/LAMElements
Word Gloss orod “mountain” glamren “echoing” Variations
- Eredlamrin ✧ EtyAC/LAM (
Eredlamrin)
hebel dúath
place name. Mountains of Shadow
Changes
- Hebel Dúath → Ephel Dúath “Mountains of Shadow” ✧ WR/122
- Hebel Dúath → Ephel Dúath ✧ WR/180
Elements
Word Gloss hebel “?fence” dú(w)ath “night-shade”
A “pure Noldorin” name for Eredlómin appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s as a combination of the plural of orod “mountain” and the lenited plural of glamren “echoing” (Ety/GLAM, LOM, ÓROT).
Conceptual Development: In the entry for the root ᴹ√LAM it first appeared as (rejected) Eredlamrin (EtyAC/LAM).