Rôs

Rôs was a region in the north-west of the Great Lands, near Leithian, in earlier versions of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium.
==History==
Against the will of the Valar, the Elves of Tol Eressëa set out on the "First Faring Forth", an expedition to help their kin in the Great Lands in the war against Melko and his army of Goblins, Nauglath, and wicked Men.The History of Middle-earth, Vol. II: The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, chapter V: "The Tale of Eärendel" However, these Elves were defeated in the Battle of Rôs, and those that remained in the Great Lands started to relocate to Leithian in large numbers, because Ing, king of the region, was an Elf-friend; so they slowly departed Tol Eressëa.
When Leithian became an island,The History of Middle-earth, Vol. II: The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, chapter VI: "The History of Eriol or Ælfwine and the End of the Tales" Rôs became a promontory, and the Gnomes that lived there, having been separated from their kin in Leithian, possessed their own unique Gnomish dialect."I-Lam na-Ngoldathon: The Grammar and Lexicon of the Gnomish Tongue", Parma Eldalamberon, n. XI
==Etymology==
The word Rôs means "the all-embracing, the surrounding" in Gnomish. Its equivalent in Early Quenya was Rása.
==Background==
According to Christopher Tolkien, Rôs was conceived as a mythical representation of , and its name could be related to the toponym , probably meaning "moor, promontory", with its Welsh, Breton and Irish cognates being rhôs ("moor, heath, plain"), ros ("hillock") and ros ("promontory"), respectively. In fact, J.R.R. Tolkien originally had started the creation of the legendarium with the intent to build a proper British mythology. Thus, for the earlier versions of his myths, he drew largely from actual British history.
==References==
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