Sangahyando

He and Angamaitë, another great-grandson of Castamir, were leaders of the Corsairs of Umbar. The name Sangahyando was possibly not his birth name, but a personal warrior name (or nickname). There was no need to assert his royal descent with this name, because his royal descent was clear.

Angamaitë and Sangayando learned through spies that Minardil, the King of Gondor, was in the Gondorian port of Pelargir and that he suspected no peril since his father had crushed Harad and Umbar. In Third Age 1634 the Corsairs of Umbar, led by Angamaitë and Sangayando, made a raid up the river Anduin, killed king Minardil in Pelargir, ravaged Pelargir and the coasts and escaped with great booty.

Sangahyando is a Quenya name. It literally means "Throng-cleaver" (said to be interpretable as "hewer of hostile ranks"). The first element in the name is sanga ("press" or "throng") and the second element is hyando ("cleaver"). A throng is a closely formed body of enemy soldiers.

In the manuscripts for what would later become appendix A and appendix B and in the first edition of The Lord of the Rings his name was Sangahyanda. His name was changed to Sangahyando in the second edition of The Lord of the Rings.

In the Etymologies, Qenya sangahyando ("throng-cleaver") is said to be the name of a sword.

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