Echor

Echor is a Sindarin noun which means "encircling"^[1] or "outer ring".^[2]

Examples:

• Echoriath, "The Encircling Mountains"^[3]
• Orfalch Echor, "great ravine through the Encircling Mountains"^[1]
• Rammas Echor, "great wall of the outer ring";^[2] the wall which encircled and enclosed the Pelennor Fields^[4]

[edit] See Also

• cail, "(pointed) fence"
• ephel, "encircling fence", "outer fence"
• iâth, "fence"
• pel-
• ram, "wall"

[edit] References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Index"
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, "Index"
3. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Of Maeglin"
4. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "Minas Tirith"