I moved Morambar's post of Saturday 20th May 2006 (10:07pm) in Trivia: Barad-dur to this thread.Alqualonde was the city and port of the Teleri located north of the Calacirya on the coast of Aman when they originally came to Aman.
Kortirion was the name of the great tower that Ingil, son of Inw’ built in the center of the island of Tol Eress’a, located off the coast of Aman. This was in memory of Tirion, when that city became off-limits to them. A city grew up around Kortirion and became known by that name.
Tirion earlier named K’r, was the City of the Eldor built on the hill of T’na, near the great ravine in the Pel’ri, the Calacirya.
Valmar (Valimar) was the city of the Valar built in the center of the Plain of Valinor, which was inland from the coast on the continent of Aman.

I think the problem may be that we often use Valinor, the Land of the Valar, instead of Aman when we mean the Land in the West, but of course I'm probably wrong.

Works for me. I confess to conceiving of Aman and Valinor as synonymous. Thanks for the clarification.

But who is this Ingil?

In the external history (not necessarily exhaustive on the name changes here) Ingil became Ingwil who became Ingwiel who became Ingwion, who is the son of Ingwe (I woud say Ingwion means 'son of Ingwe' as well).

And Inwe became Ingwe, the Lord of the Vanyar.

My point with the previous post was more about 'reviving' old text. I think the statement above that Ingil built this tower comes from Karen Fonstad's Atlas (it's in there in any case). But if we look at what is really being stated there, and look at just who Ingil was, we are looking at early ideas that don't necessarily survive as true Middle-earth history or legend.

That's interesting Arath. Gondolin was made in memory of Tirion anyway, and it was built upon an 'island-hill'.

In the late 1930s the base KOR- meant round, and k’r was a: 'round hill upon which T’na was built'. This connection to roundness survived into The Lord of the Rings, noting cormacolindor 'Ringbearers' (*corma being a ring).