The Anbalûkkhôri (Ad. "Ship-lords"?) were descendants of the Black Númenóreans who inhabited the southern realm of An-Balkûmagân.
| Boromir: "Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing!" - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring II:10 |
Notes[]
The original ICE source-books used the forms "Ciryedain" and "Ciryatandor"; however, it is highly unlikely that any Black Númenóreans would have called themselves Ciryedain due to the tendency of the King's Men to avoid the elven tongues; besides Ciryedain seems to be a corrupt form, a combination of Quenya and Sindarin. The name Ciryedain perhaps should be taken as an neologism of late Gondorian loremasters who still knew the Quenya name of the former colony from old sources and had applied this name to their removed cousins of the south. Since Tar-Ciryatan’s Adûnaic name was Ar-Balkumagân, Ciryatandor’s actual Adûnaic form might have been Thâni an-Balkumagân or Balkumagânzâyan, and the Ciryedain might have called themselves Balkumagânâim. However Hands of the Healer gives an alternate name of the country as Anbalukkhor, maybe a corrupted form from Ansith, the common speech of Far-Harad?
References[]
- MERP: Lords of Middle-earth II: The Mannish Races
- MERP: Hands of the Healer