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Andrath

Type: Valleys, Caves, Tunnels

Region: Arnor/Eriador/Lindon

Meaning: long climb

Location: A narrow pass between the Barrow-downs on the west and the South Downs on the east through which the Greenway passed.

Description:

Andrath  'Long climb', defile between the Barrow-downs and the South Downs through which the North-South Road (Greenway) passed.

Unfinished Tales, Index

[The] Black Captain established a camp at Andrath, where the Greenway passed in a defile between the Barrow-downs and the South Downs....

Unfinished Tales, Part 3, Ch 4, The Hunt for the Ring: Other Versions of the Story


Etymology
an(d)  'long' in Andram, Anduin; also in Anfalas ('Lang-strand') in Gondor, Cair Andros ('ship of long-foam') an island in Anduin, and Angerthas 'long rune-rows'.

The Silmarillion, Appendix: Elements in Quenya and Sindarin Names

[The] second element [of Amroth] is a derivative from a stem rath- meaning "climb" (whence also the noun rath, which in the Númenórean Sindarin used in Gondor in the naming of places and persons was applied to all the longer roadways and street[s] of Minas Tirith, nearly all of which were on an incline: so Rath Dínen, the Silent Street, leading down from the Citadel to the Tombs of the Kings).

Unfinished Tales, Part 2, Ch 4, The History of Galadriel and Celeborn: Notes, Note 16

Contributors:
Elena Tiriel 15Jul06, 7Feb10

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