Noldorin 

taur-na-danion

place name. Forest of Pines

Earliest name of Dorthonion in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, first appearing as Taur Danin (SM/197) and later expanded to Taur-na-Danion (LR/127) with variants -Thanion, -Donion, -Thonion before ultimately being replaced by the Ilkorin name Dorthonion (LR/145). It is a combination of taur “forest”, na “of” and early variants of thaun “pine”, possibly as an earlier Gnomish-style genitive plural.

Noldorin [LR/127; LR/145; LRI/Taur-na-Danion; SM/197; SM/296; SM/330; SMI/Dorthonion; SMI/Taur-na-Danion] Group: Eldamo. Published by