A shortened form of Barazinbar, the Dwarvish name for the northernmost of the three Mountains of Moria. The full name Barazinbar comes from elements baraz, 'red, ruddy' and inbar, 'horn', so naming the mountain simply 'Baraz' would be to call it 'red'. The same element made its way into the Elvish and Common translations of the name which were Caradhras and 'Redhorn' respectively. Both of these names are direct translations of the full Dwarvish Barazinbar; the equivalents of the shortened form Baraz would have been Caran and simply 'Red', but there is no record of either of these alternative abbreviations being used.
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Tolkien doesn't explain Dwarvish pronunciation in any detail, so the placing of stress in Dwarvish names is necessarily speculative. The limited evidence we have implies that, in a two-syllable word, the stress should go on the second syllable, and we follow that convention here. |
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