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'''Ras Morthil''' was the last mountain on a southern spur of the [[White Mountains]]. It stood on the cape of [[Andrast]].<ref>{{UT|Map}}</ref> The mountain chain that ran along the length of the cape was, for a long time, the home of tribes of the [[Drúedain]].  It may have been vacated by the end of the [[Third Age]] although the men of the [[Anfalas]] believed some of the Druédain still lingered there.<ref>{{UT|Druedain}}, ''Further notes on the Druédain''</ref>
'''Ras Morthil''' must be another name for [[Andrast]], the great headland at the end of the northern arm of the [[Bay of Belfalas]].<ref>{{UT|4a}}, note 6</ref><ref>{{UT|Map}}</ref>


==Etymology==
==Etymology==
[[Ras]] is a [[Sindarin]] word for "horn" (cf. [[Caradhras]]); Morthil likely contains the element ''[[mor]]'', "dark, black".
The name ''Ras Morthil'' likely consists of the [[Sindarin]] word ''[[ras]]'' ("cape, shore") and the word ''Morthil''. ''Morthil'' likely contains the elements ''[[mor]]'' ("dark, black") and the nasally mutated ''[[til]]'' ("point, spike, (sharp) horn, tine, ending").<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.eldamo.org/content/words/word-9082681.html|articlename=Ras Morthil|dated=|website=[http://eldamo.org/ eldamo.org]|accessed=31 May 2021}}</ref><ref group=note>In [[Aldarion and Erendis]] it is mentioned that [[Aldarion]] "rounded the dark cape of Ras Morthil".</ref>


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Ras Morthil must be another name for Andrast, the great headland at the end of the northern arm of the Bay of Belfalas.[1][2]

Etymology[edit | edit source]

The name Ras Morthil likely consists of the Sindarin word ras ("cape, shore") and the word Morthil. Morthil likely contains the elements mor ("dark, black") and the nasally mutated til ("point, spike, (sharp) horn, tine, ending").[3][note 1]

Notes

  1. ↑ In Aldarion and Erendis it is mentioned that Aldarion "rounded the dark cape of Ras Morthil".

References

  1. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "Aldarion and Erendis: The Mariner's Wife", "Notes", note 6
  2. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The West of Middle-earth at the End of the Third Age" [map]
  3. ↑ "Ras Morthil", eldamo.org (accessed 31 May 2021)
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