Just to follow up and refine the useage of "leaguer" a bit more, I'd say the principle is right with Melian's Girdle and Doriath, but Tolkien's useage of the word usually seems to include a physical blockade or barrier -- the Noldor forces permanently encamped near Angband; the impassable hills surrounding Gondolin; the sheer peaks of the Pelóri around Valinor.
I'd venture to opine that the shade of meaning of "leaguer" isn't quite right for Doriath's more intangible partition.
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