Talk:Gondor

Capital

I actually think it's Osgiliath.--Jack Upland (talk) 08:51, 22 July 2021 (UTC) How big is Gondor though? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.83.102.139 (talk) 01:34, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Osgiliath was abandoned as a city some 600 years before the events of Lord of the Rings. There was an outpost of guards there by then, that is all GimliDotNet (talk) 19:27, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

In-fiction etymology

There are two possible kinds of etymology in a work of fiction: in-fiction and out-of-fiction/real-world. A real-world etymology as used by Tolkien is, for instance, the use of "The Shire", where "shire" is a known word of historic and current meaning in British English. An in-fiction etymology is a wholly constructed thing, in which Tolkien imagined the words and languages involved, and invented the history and transformations of the words, as with "Gondor". This type of etymology belongs in the "Literature" section as it is just as much part of the fiction as the geography and history of that fictional country. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:31, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Agreed. Take Quenya for instance. The etymology of that proto-language is entirely fictional, and different from say, the Nordic roots of the Dwarven names in The Hobbit. GimliDotNet (talk)|

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