pelargir

place name. Garth of Royal Ships

A Gondorian city at the mouth of the Anduin (LotR/789), translated “Garth of Royal Ships” (RC/535), a combination of pêl “fenced field”, the prefix ar(a)- “royal” and the lenited form of the plural cîr of cair “ship” (RC/625).

Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, this name first appeared as N. Pelargir (WR/268).

Elements

Word	Gloss
pêl	“*fenced field, [N.] fenced field”
ar(a)-	“noble, royal, high”
cair	“ship”

Variations

• pelArgir ✧ LotR/1116

Pelargir

noun. harbour of royal ships

pel (from stem pel- “go round, revolve”) + ar(a) (“royal, noble”) + cîr (pl. of cair “ship”)

Pelargir

Pelargir

Pelargir is Sindarin for "Garth of (the) Royal Ships". Christopher Tolkien has noted that the first element derives from the Elvish element/root pel- ("go round, encircle"); the two other elements appear to be ar(a) ("royal, noble") + cîr ("ships").