Editing Gondor (section)

=== In-fiction etymology ===

Tolkien intended the name ''Gondor'' to be [[Sindarin]] for "Stone-land".<ref name="AppF" group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1955}} Appendix F, "Of Men"</ref><ref name="Etym" group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1987}} entries GOND-, NDOR-</ref> This is echoed in the text of ''The Lord of the Rings'' by the name for Gondor among the [[Rohirrim]], Stoningland.<ref name="Battle of the Pelennor Fields" group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1955}} book 5 ch. 6 "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields"</ref> Tolkien's early writings suggest that this was a reference to the highly developed masonry of Gondorians in contrast to their rustic neighbours.<ref name="RS379-81" group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1988}} ch. 22 "New Uncertainties and New Projections"</ref> This view is supported by the [[Drúedain]] terms for Gondorians and [[Minas Tirith]]—Stonehouse-folk and Stone-city.<ref name="Ride of the Rohirrim" group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1955}} book 5 ch. 5 "The Ride of the Rohirrim"</ref> Tolkien denied that the name ''Gondor'' had been inspired by the ancient Ethiopian citadel of [[Gondar]], stating that the root ''Ond'' went back to an account he had read as a child mentioning ''ond'' ("stone") as one of only two words known of the [[pre-Celtic]] languages of Britain.<ref group=T>{{harvnb|Carpenter|2023|loc=#324 to Graham Tayar 4–5 June 1971 }}</ref> Gondor is also called the South-kingdom or Southern Realm, and together with Arnor as the Númenórean Realms in Exile. Researchers [[Wayne G. Hammond]] and [[Christina Scull]] have proposed a [[Quenya]] translation of ''Gondor'': ''Ondonórë''.<ref>{{harvnb|Hammond|Scull|2005|loc="The Great River", p. 347}}</ref>
The Men of Gondor are nicknamed "Tarks" (from Quenya ''tarkil'' "High Man", Númenórean)<ref group=T>{{cite journal |last1=Tolkien |first1=J. R. R. |author-link=J. R. R. Tolkien |last2=Gilson |first2=Christopher (editing, annotations) |journal=[[Parma Eldalamberon]] |title=Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings |issue=17 |url=http://www.eldalamberon.com/parma17.html |page=101}}</ref> by the [[Orc (Middle-Earth)|orc]]s of Mordor.<ref group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1955}}, "The Tower of Cirith Ungol"</ref>

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