Lond Daer Enedh, or simply Lond Daer, was a great harbour in Eriador. It should be pronounced as lond dye-r en-eth.
History[]
Under the name Vinyalondë, or 'New Haven', Lond Daer was founded by Númenor's crown prince and future "Ship-king" Tar-Aldarion on the estuary of the River Gwathló in the early Second Age. It was the first permanent settlement of the Númenóreans in Middle-earth. From here Aldarion's "Guild of Venturers" began harvesting the local timber for the shipbuilding industry of Númenor.
Within a few centuries, the deforestation of the outlying regions Enedwaith and Minhiriath became cataclysmic, angering the native peoples (ancestors of the Dunlendings), who became adverse and attacked the haven several times, setting fire to the stores of wood.
By the time of the War of the Elves and Sauron in the middle of the Second Age, Lond Daer had become very well established, and its name had shifted over the intervening one thousand years to 'Lond Daer', the Great Haven. As such, it was one of the two beachheads of the Númenórean forces in Eriador that were used to support the Elves around SA 1700.
Lond Daer's shipyards were starved of timber following the war, as the forces of Sauron had burnt almost all of what remained in Enedwaith and Minhiriath. Once its shipbuilding yards were no longer practicable, Lond Daer declined in importance, and the Númenórean hunger for ever more wealth shifted focus to the establishment of newer havens to the south, Pelargir and Umbar. Following this, Lond Daer was once again renamed, being now one of several major ports in Middle-earth, and was known as Lond Daer Enedh, or 'Great Middle Haven', a stronghold of the Faithful Númenóreans. Despite this, Númenor still maintained traffic on the Gwathló as far as the city of Tharbad.
After the Downfall of Númenor, Elendil founded the realm of Arnor in the lands north of Lond Daer, but the haven was now redundant, and fell into ruin. Instead, control over the region was maintained from Tharbad.[3] The ancient ruins of Lond Daer were still visible as late as the end of the Third Age, however, and still featured on maps from that time.
In adaptations[]
In Electronic Arts' The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II and The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king, the ruins of Lond Daer, scaled down, are seen on the Enedwaith map.
Translations[]
| Foreign Language | Translated name |
| Amharic | ሎንድ ዳየር ኤነድ |
| Arabic | لوند دير إنيد |
| Armenian | Լոնդ Դաեր |
| Assamese | লন্দ ডায়েৰ এনেধ |
| Belarusian Cyrillic | Лонд Даер Энэд |
| Bengali | লন্ড ডের এনেধ |
| Bulgarian Cyrillic | Лонд Даер (Lond Daer)
Винялонде (Vinyalondë) |
| Chinese (Hong Kong) | 隆得戴爾 |
| Georgian | ლონდ დაერ ენედჰ |
| Greek | Λονδ Δαερ Ενέδ |
| Gujarati | લોન્ડ ડેર એનેધ |
| Hebrew | (Lond Daer) לונד דאיר
(Vinyalondë) ויניאלונדה |
| Hindi | लोंड डेर एनेध |
| Japanese | ロンド・ダイア (Lond Daer)
ロンド・ダイア・エネズ (Lond Daer Enedh) |
| Kannada | ಲೋಂಡ್ ಡೇರ್ ಎನೆದ್ |
| Kazakh | Лонд Даер (Cyrillic) Lond Daer (Latin) |
| Korean | 론드 데르 에네드 |
| Kyrgyz Cyrillic | Лонд Даер Энедх |
| Macedonian Cyrillic | Лонд Даер |
| Maithili | लोंड डाएर एनेध |
| Malayalam | ലോണ്ട് ഡേർ എനേഡ് |
| Marathi | लॉन्ड डियर |
| Mongolian Cyrillic | Лонд Даер |
| Nepalese | ळोन्द डएर |
| Pashto | لوند ضاېر |
| Persian | لوند ضاهر ? |
| Punjabi | ਲੋਂਡ ਦਏਰ |
| Russian | Лонд Даэр |
| Sanskrit | ळोन्द् डएर् |
| Serbian | Лонд Даер (Cyrillic) Lond Daer (Latin) |
| Sinhalese | ලෝන්ඩ් ඩේර් එනෙඩ් |
| Tajik Cyrillic | Лонд Даер |
| Tamil | லோண்ட் டேர் எனெத் |
| Tatar | Лонд Даер Энед |
| Ukrainian Cyrillic | Лондон Даер Енедх |
| Urdu | لوند ضاےر |
| Yiddish | לאָנד דאַער |
References[]
- ↑ The Atlas of Middle-earth, The Second Age, "Introduction"
- ↑ The Atlas of Middle-earth, The Third Age, "Introduction"
- ↑ Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, Part Two: The Second Age, Chapter IV: "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", Appendices: Appendix D, The Port of Lond Daer