echor is a Sindarin noun which means "encircling"[1] or "outer ring".[2]
Examples
- Echoriath, "The Encircling Mountains"[3]
- Orfalch Echor, "great ravine through the Encircling Mountains"[1]
- Rammas Echor, "great wall of the outer ring";[2] the wall which encircled and enclosed the Pelennor Fields[4]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Index of Names", echor
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, "Index"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of Maeglin"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "Minas Tirith"