Of Belleriand And Its Namesake

found randomly in an RPG sourcebook on Cornwall
The ancient name of this headland [Now called Land's End] was Bellerian, named after
the giant who built the first castle here ."

I have no inkling of the provenance of this bit of folklore, but it doesn't seem implausible that Tolkien could have known about it.

Edit: can't believe it took me 4 hours to think of this, but, of course, the reason it's now called Land's End is because of its mythical connection to the sunken kingdom of Lyonesse, which is why, as the continuation of the above passage states "no trace of the castle now remains." Coincidence?
 
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Broceliande too has a similarity in spelling.I guess the roots of all that were the lost tales in which northwestern middle-earth and Tol Eressea were still conceived as prehistoric forerunners of the later british isles... JRRT later pretty much dropped that concept, but he kept some of the older names.
 
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