sarn

noun/adjective. stone as a material

sarn

noun. stone (as a material)

Sern in UT/463 is a misprint, see VT/42:11

sarn

noun. small stone

Sern in UT/463 is a misprint, see VT/42:11

sarn ruin

place name. Sarn Ruin

Earlier name of S. Sarn Gebir in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s (TI/366). Its initial element is sarn “stone”, but the meaning of its second element is unclear. Some possibilities were suggested by Roman Rausch (EE/2.39, 2.40).

sarnas

noun. cairn

A noun for “cairn” (a memorial made of a pile of stones) inx the name N. Sarnas Fingolfin “Cairn of Fingolfin” from a list of names associated with Silmarillion drafts of the 1930s (LR/406). It is an elaboration of N. sarn “stone”.

Conceptual Development: An earlier word G. dal “cairn” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s near the words G. dalech “(upright) stone” and G. daltha- “to erect, set up” (GL/29), so perhaps based on ᴱ√TALA (or ✱DALA) “support” (QL/88).

sarnas fingolfin

place name. Cairn of Fingolfin

A location appearing only on a list of names from the 1930s (LR/406), a combination of sarnas “cairn” and the name Fingolfin.

sarn athrad

place name. Stony Ford, Ford of Stones

sarn gebir

place name. ?lone stone, Stand[?ing stones], [?Lime]stones

sarnas

noun. cairn, pile of stones

sern aranath

place name. King Stones

Earlier name for the Argonath appearing in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s (TI/366), a combination of the plural of sarn “stone” and the class-plural of aran “king”. It also appeared with the ordinary plural Sern Erain, and the singular form Sarn Aran (WR/98).

sern ubed

place name. [Stones of] Denial

Earlier name for the Argonath appearing in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s (WR/132), a combination of the plural of sarn “stone” and ubed “denial”.

argonath

place name. King Stones

ceber

noun. stake, spike, stone ridge

gondrafn

noun. hewn stone

gondram

noun. hewn stone

gonn

noun. great stone, rock