tarlang

place name. Stiff Neck; Stiff/Tough Passage

A mountain ridge in Lamedon (LotR/790), translated “stiff neck” (RC/536) or “the stiff/tough passage” (PE17/92). It was apparently the adjective S. tarlang “stiff-necked” used as a name (PE17/92).

Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, this name first appeared as N. Tarlang (WR/411).

Tarlang

noun. 'stiff-neck'

prop. n. 'stiff-neck', sc. 'proud', 'the stiff, tough passage'.  It could be the name of a man used to call the narrow 'col' or passage over the mountains that separated Lamedon from the plain of Erech. FAchad Tarlang

tarlang

noun/adjective. proud, (lit.) stiff-necked; stiff neck (a nickname applied to men of haughty carriage or mood); the stiff/tough passage, proud, [N.] obstinate, [S.] (lit.) stiff-necked; stiff neck (a nickname applied to men of haughty carriage or mood); the stiff/tough passage

achad tarlang

place name. Tarlang’s Neck

The full Sindarin name of Tarlang’s Neck, a combination of achad “neck, rock ridge” and the name Tarlang (RC/537, PE17/92).

dol tarlang

place name. Tarlang’s Head

A mountain near the pass of Tarlang’s Neck translated “Tarlang’s Head” (RC/536), a combination of dol(l) “head, hill” with the name of the pass.

Achad Tarlang

place name. The long narrow 'col' or passage over the long spur of the mountains that separated Lamedon from the plain of Erech

topon. The long narrow 'col' or passage over the long spur of the mountains that separated Lamedon from the plain of Erech. It is not certain whether this was named after some ancient man with the Sindarin name Tarlang ('stiff-neck', sc. 'proud') or was due to the obsolescence of Tarlang 'the stiff, tough passage' to which S. ached had been prefixed in explanation, so that Achad Tarlang 'the crossing called Tarlang' was interpreted as 'Tarlang's Neck'. The neck was not the name of the passage but of the lower, narrower ridge (crossed by the road) between the main mountains, and the mountainous region at southern end of the spur. Fachad, lang

Dol Tarlang

Dol Tarlang

The name Dol Tarlang is glossed as "Tarlang's Head", consisting of dol ("head") and Tarlang.