N. Bered Ondrath loc. “*Towers of the Stone Road”
Guard towers at the entrance of the causeway into Pelennor appearing only in the Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s (WR/340). This name is likely a combination of the plural of barad¹ “tower”, the lenited form of gond “stone” and rath “course, street”, as suggested by Roman Rausch (EE/3.35).
References ✧ WR/340; WRI/Bered Ondrath
Glosses
Elements
| barad¹ | “fort, tower, fortress” | plural | ✧ WR/340 (Bered) |
| gonn | “rock, stone (as a material)” | soft-mutation | ✧ WR/340 (Ond) |
| rath | “course, river-bed” | ✧ WR/340 |