S. Dorwinion loc. “Young-land country, land of Gwinion”
A name applied to various places in the Legendarium: a Southern land of wines in the Lays of Beleriand from the 1920s (LB/11), the land that produced the wines of the Elven-king in the Hobbit, and finally a region near the sea of Rhûn in the Pauline-Barnes map of Middle-earth (LB/26), all of which may be the same place, conceptually. It was also named as a region in Avallon (Tol Eressea) in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (LR/334, 338). In his Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s, Tolkien translated the name as “Young-land country, land of Gwinion” (PE17/54), a combination of dôr “country” and Gwinion “Young-land”.
Reference ✧ PE17/54 ✧ “Young-land country, land of Gwinion”
Elements
dôr | “land” | |
Gwinion | “Young-land” | ✧ PE17/54 |
ᴱN. Dorwinion loc.
References ✧ LBI/Dor-Winion
Variations