mindor uilas

place name. *Isolated Mountain of Ever-leaf

One of the beacon hills in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s (WR/233). It is a combination of various elements, perhaps mind- “isolated” plus -or “mountain” and ui “ever” plus lhass “leaf”, as suggested by Roman Rausch (3.22).

Elements

Word	Gloss
mindon	“tower, isolated hill (especially a hill with a watchtower)”
orod	“mountain”
ui	“ever”
lhass	“leaf”