Narog (“river-name”) + ost (“fortress”) + rond (“dome-roofed hall”)
Sindarin
Nargothrond
Nargothrond
Nargothrond
noun. fortress of Narog
nargothrond
place name. *Underground Fortress of Narog
The hidden fortress city of the Noldor called the “Caverns of Narog” (S/114) and described as “the great underground burg and halls upon the river Narog” (WJ/414). This name is a combination of the river name Narog and othrond “underground stronghold” (WJ/414).
Conceptual Development: This name first appeared in Lays of Beleriand from the 1920s as ᴱN. Nargothrond (LB/36) and it remained the same thereafter. The name N. Nargothrond appeared in The Etymologies from the 1930s with the translation “fortress of Narog” and the derivation given above (Ety/NÁRAK, OS, ROD). In Notes on Names (NN) from 1957, Tolkien considered deriving the name from its Khuzdul equivalent N. Nar(u)kuthûn (PE17/47), but elsewhere he stated that the Dwarvish name for the caverns was Nulukkhizdîn (S/230, WJ/180).
Cognates
- Kh. Nulukkhizdîn ✧ WJI/Nargothrond; SI/Nulukkizdîn; WJI/Nulukkhizdīn
Derivations
- Kh. Nar(u)kuthûn ✧ PE17/047
Elements
Word Gloss Narog othrond “underground stronghold, underground stronghold, [N.] underground city, fortress” Variations
- nargothrond ✧ PE17/047
Nargothrond
Nargothrond (name)
From its first conception, the name Nargothrond means "Underground fortress on the river Narog". Its Petty-dwarvish name was Nulukkhizdîn (erronously spelled Nulukkizdîn in the published works).
However, in his later life, Tolkien devised the Dwarvish name Nar(u)kathan instead, to which the Elves suffixed -rond, "vaulted dome".
In Eriol's Old English translations, Nargothrond is referred as Hlydingaburg "City of the Hlydingas" or Stangaldor(burg).
Nargothrond
Nargothrond
From its first conception, the name Nargothrond means "Underground fortress on the river Narog". Its Petty-dwarvish name was Nulukkhizdîn (erronously spelled Nulukkizdîn in the published works). However, in his later life, Tolkien devised the Dwarvish name Nar(u)kathan instead, to which the Elves suffixed -rond, "vaulted dome". In Eriol's Old English translations, Nargothrond is referred as Hlydingaburg "City of the Hlydingas" or Stangaldor(burg).
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