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Dates
Dated back to the beginning of Gondor in II 3320, and perhaps earlier still; after III 2076 the Princes were known as Princes of Dol Amroth, but this region retained the name 'Land of the Prince' until at least the end of the Third Age
Location
Origins
Race
Division
Culture
Family
Ruled by a people of pure Númenórean blood, ancestors of the Princes of Dol Amroth
Settlements
Dol Amroth; the townships of Ethring and Linhir, and the Elf-haven of Edhellond, were on the borders of this land
Meaning
The land that historically belonged to the Princes of Belfalas
Other names
Dor-en-Ernil; possibly equivalent to Belfalas
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Land of the PrinceA region within Gondor![]() A translation of Elvish Dor-en-Ernil, the name given to a southern region of Gondor. Though its boundaries are not clearly established, it appears to have been part of - or perhaps synonymous with - the mountainous coastland fief known as Belfalas. Extending out from its western shores was smaller peninsula on which was built Dol Amroth, the seat of the Princes of Dol Amroth in the later Third Age. The reason that this region was named 'Land of the Prince' is not explained in detail, but it should be noted that we have no reference to a Prince of Belfalas extant at the time of the War of the Ring. We do, however, have a single oblique reference to a former Prince of Belfalas, and to the fact that that Prince shared a bloodline with the Princes of Dol Amroth.1 The implication is that the line of the Princes of Belfalas gave way to the Princes of Dol Amroth at the time of Galador, though the sequence of historical events here is far from clear. Notes
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