Deeping-coomb
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The Deeping-coomb was a deep valley on the northern side of the White Mountains that led up to Helm's Deep and the castle of the Hornburg.[1]
The Deeping-coomb was a green valley whose grass covered slopes lapped the mounting hills.[2] Its mouth was five leagues (15 miles[3]) from the Fords of Isen.[4]
The Deeping-coomb was the site of an important battle, the Battle of the Hornburg, during the War of the Ring.[5]
Etymology
The name has the sense the "deep valley belonging to the Deep" to which it led.[6]
A Coomb is a "deep valley", occurring frequently in English place-names in the forms -comb, -cumb, -combe, etc.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, "Helm's Deep", p. 529
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, "Helm's Deep", p. 545
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. 421
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, "The Road to Isengard", p. 548
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, "The Palantír", p. 597
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" in Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, entry Deeping Coomb, p. 768
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" in Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, entry Coomb, p. 767
