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Location
Southern Gondor
Source
In the White Mountains above Ethring
Tributaries
Ciril, Morthond
Outflow
Into the Bay of Belfalas
Meaning
'Coldflood'1

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  • Updated 11 March 2001
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River Ringló

A river of southern Gondor

An important river of the southern regions of Gondor. It rose in the White Mountains above Lamedon, and flowed southwestwards for some 200 miles before it met the sea. Near its mouth was the ancient Elf-haven of Edhellond, and it marked the border between Anfalas to the west and Belfalas to the east.


Notes

1

Tolkien never directly translates the name Ringló himself, but the elements ring 'cold' and ló 'flood, fen' are well established. The ló element is commonly seen in the names of rivers that flooded the lands around them, or flowed through fenlands: compare, for example, Gwathló ('Greyflood') or Onodló ('Entwash').

See also...

Dervorin, Dor-en-Ernil, Ethring, Lamedon, River Blackroot, River Ciril, River Morthond

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