Kôrtirion

Kôrtirion (called also KôrThe History of Middle-earth, Vol. I: The Book of Lost Tales Part One, chapter V: "The Coming of Elves and the Making of Kôr" and Koromas) was the principal city of Tol Eressëa, near Aman.
The city was located on a great hill at the very center of the island in the region of Alalvinórë, the 'Land of Many Elms'. There Ingil son of Inwë built the Tirin na Gilweth ("Tower of Gilweth") when he returned from the March of Liberation."The Alphabet of Rúmil & Early Noldorin Fragments" in Parma Eldalamberon, n. XIIIThe History of Middle-earth, Vol. I: The Book of Lost Tales Part One, chapter I: "The Cottage of Lost Play" At the foot of this tower, described as being "tall and grey", was the house of Meril-i-Turinqi in a circular enclosure of elms.The History of Middle-earth, Vol. I: The Book of Lost Tales Part One, chapter IV: "The Chaining of Melko" The Cottage of Lost Play was located somewhere outside the city.The Atlas of Middle-earth, The Second Age, "Introduction"
==Etymology==
Kôrtirion meant approximately 'Great Watch-tower hill', 'Watch-tower hill', or 'mighty tower / city on a hill'.The Silmarillion, Index of NamesThe Silmarillion, Appendix: Elements in Quenya and Sindarin namesThe History of Middle-earth, Vol. I: The Book of Lost Tales Part One, Appendix: Names in the Lost Tales – Part I
== Canon ==
Kôrtirion was not described or mentioned in The Silmarillion. It is only documented in The Book of Lost Tales Part One, and mapped out by Karen Wynn Fonstad in The Atlas of Middle-earth. It was also mentioned in the poem and song, first written before 1937, "Kortirion among the Trees" and "Kôr".
In Henry Rider Haggard's 1886 book She, "Kôr" is the name of an ancient, deserted city just like the Kôr of Tolkien's early poem.John Garth, Tolkien and the Great War, Part One, ch. 4, pg. 78
==Translations==
Foreign Language	Translated name
Danish 	Kortirion ("Højen med Det Store Vagttårn")
==References==
Category:Tol Eressëa
Category:Elven cities
Category:Precanonical locations
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