In The History of the Hobbit, John D. Rateliff speculates that name originally derived from Elvish, and can perhaps be interpreted as something like 'crossroads of stone' (presumably as a reference to the fact that it lay where the Misty Mountains met the Grey). In later work, however, Tolkien explicitly associated the name with the Dwarvish language of Khuzdul, but provided no interpretation in that language. |
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