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==Portrayal in adaptations==
==Portrayal in adaptations==
'''[[1995]]-[[1998|8]]: ''[[Middle-earth Collectible Card Game]]'':'''
:A card with ''[[Haudh in Gwanûr|Haudh-in-Gwanûr]]'' on it also has Harondor written on the card.


'''[[1996]]: ''[[Middle-earth Role Playing]]'':'''
'''[[1996]]: ''[[Middle-earth Role Playing]]'':'''
:Several settlements and sites in Harondor are mentioned in the MERP module ''[[Southern Gondor: The Land]]''. This includes [[Haudh in Gwanûr|Haudh-in-Gwanûr]] alongside other locations created for the game.
:Several settlements and sites in Harondor are mentioned in the MERP module ''[[Southern Gondor: The Land]]''.


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Map of Harondor and neighbouring regions

South Gondor, known in Sindarin as Harondor, was a region south of Ithilien.[1]

Geography

Harondor's borders were probably the river Poros in the north,[2] possibly the river Harnen in the south,[3] the Ephel Dúath in the east and the river Anduin and the Bay of Belfalas in the west.[1] It was described on maps as a "desert land". [1] However, it is possible that this meant that it was a land that was deserted by its inhabitants because of the wars between Gondor and the Corsairs of Umbar and the Haradrim.[note 1] It is possible that Harondor had a climate that was fluctuating between mild winters and very hot and dry summers.[4][note 2]

History

Harondor was absorbed by Gondor during the height of its power, probably the expansions of Tarannon Falastur, who extended the sway of Gondor along the coasts west and south of the Mouths of Anduin.[5][6]

Harondor was part of Gondor until the Kin-strife when it became a debatable land between the Corsairs of Umbar and the Kings of Gondor.[5][1]

During the days of Steward Túrin II, the Haradrim occupied Harondor and there was big fighting along the Poros. When they started invading Ithilien, many Rohirrim came to the support of Gondor and won (T.A. 2885).[7]

Etymology

The Sindarin word Harondor seems[who?] to contain har- (as in Harad, meaning "south")[8] and Gondor.[source?]

Portrayal in adaptations

1996: Middle-earth Role Playing:

Several settlements and sites in Harondor are mentioned in the MERP module Southern Gondor: The Land.

Notes

  1. South Gondor is labelled as a "verlassenes Land" (i.e. a deserted land or abandoned land) on the map of the West of Middle-earth in the German translation of The Lord of the Rings.
  2. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote on his son's map of Middle-earth for Pauline Baynes that Umbar is approximately at the latitude of Cyprus and that Minas Tirith is approximately at the latitude of Ravenna, but more to the east near Belgrade. He wrote that these references are so that Pauline Baynes can roughly judge the climate and the fauna and flora for her map of Middle-earth. In addition, he wrote in a letter to Charlotte and Denis Plimmer that the city of Pelargir is approximately at the latitude of ancient Troy. J.R.R. Tolkiens mentions that Ithilien was open to the moist winds from the sea and sheltered from the east by the Ephel Dúath in the context of the vegetation Ithilien in The Lord of the Rings. Those two factors probably also apply to Harondor.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, "The West of Middle-earth at the End of the Third Age" [map]
  2. J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 42, July 2001, pp. 17 paragraph about the element arn-
  3. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit", "in those days our bounds were away south beyond the mouths of Anduin"
  4. Karen Wynn Fonstad (1991), The Atlas of Middle-earth, pp. 183, 185
  5. 5.0 5.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion"
  6. Karen Wynn Fonstad (1991), The Atlas of Middle-earth, "The Third Age - Kingdoms of the Dunedain", p. 55
  7. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion", "The Stewards"
  8. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix E, "Pronunciation of Words and Names", "Consonants"