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.