[Lalaith]

It could be argued that peoples or tribes who take their names from their female rulers can be classified as matriarchies. The People of Haleth being a case in point. It wasn't just Haleth herself who fought but also other women, too. The Galadhrim...were they named after Galadriel or is another etymological origin?

I would also say that Numenor always sounded about as patriarchal a society as you can get, to me. Even after the law was changed, the queens were mostly rather diffident and lacklustre....more along the lines of Anne than Elizabeth I, to take a real-life analogy.