The wide land of fields and fens that lay north of the White Mountains had historically fallen within the boundaries of Gondor, whose people called that region by the name Calenardhon. After Steward Cirion granted Calenardhon to Eorl's people, the Éothéod, the land was given a new name. It was Cirion's son, Hallas, who is credited with inventing the name Rochand, from the Elvish for 'horse-land'. That name mutated into the intermediate form Rochann, until it ultimately resolved into the form used at the end of the Third Age, Rohan, the land of the Rohirrim.
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That is, the country called Rochann in earlier times, and later better known as Rohan, was founded in the year III 2510. We're not told exactly when the form Rochann was in use, but it seems to have developed from the original Rochand some years after the establishment of the land, and in turn fallen out of use before the end of the Third Age. |
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