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 | | Arnen, it appears, was a name bestowed upon all the land which Isildur took as his demesne (Ithilien). |
 | | But it eventually became only associated with the hills that were properly called Emyn Arnen, which the annoymous author of a Gondorion document called Ondonore Nomesseron Minaþurie (the þ symbol is called a "thorn" is associated with a sound similar to "th-" in "thank you"). |
 | | The name Arnen, this anonymous Gondorian scholar argues, must have been an erroneous Quenya-Sindarin composite made by the Numenoreans who explored and settled in the region (they were mariners, soldiers, and colonists -- presumably frontier folk from the fringes of Numenorean society). |
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