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Drûn A region to the north of Lake Aeluin; not named elsewhere. Draugluin Greatest of the werewolves of Thû (Sauron). Eärámë ‘Eagle’s Pinion’, Tuor’s ship. Eärendel (later form Eärendil) Son of Tuor and Idril daughter of Turgon King of Gondolin; wedded Elwing. Edain ‘The Second People’, Men, but used chiefly of the three Houses of the Elf-friends who came earliest to Beleriand. Egnor bo-Rimion ‘The huntsman of the Elves’: the father of Beren, replaced by Barahir. Egnor Eilinel Elbereth Eldalië Son of Finrod (later Finarfin). Wife of Gorlim. ‘Queen of the Stars’; See Varda. (The people of the Elves), the Eldar. Eldar The Elves of the Great Journey from the place of their awakening; sometimes used in early texts to mean all Elves. Elfinesse An inclusive name for all the lands of the Elves. Elrond of Rivendell Son of Elwing and Eärendel. Elros Elwing Eönwë Son of Elwing and Eärendel; first King of Númenor. Daughter of Dior, wedded Eärendel, mother of Elrond and Elros. Herald of Manwë. Erchamion Esgalduin ‘One-handed’, name given to Beren; other forms Ermabwed, Elmavoitë. River of Doriath, passing Menegroth (the halls of Thingol), and flowing into Sirion. Fëanor Eldest son of Finwë; maker of the Silmarils. Felagund Noldorin Elf, founder of Nargothrond and sworn friend of Barahir father of Beren. [On the relation of the names Felagund and Finrod see p. 104.] Fingolfin Fingon Finrod The second son of Finwë; slain in single combat with Morgoth. Eldest son of Fingolfin; king of the Noldor after the death of his father. The third son of Finwë. [Name replaced by Finarfin, when Finrod became the name of his son, Finrod Felagund.] Finwë Leader of the second host of the Elves, the Noldor (Noldoli), on the Great Journey. Foamriders Gaurhoth The kindred of the Eldar named the Solosimpi, later the Teleri; the third and last host on the Great Journey. The werewolves of Thû (Sauron); Gaurhoth Isle, See Tol-in-Gaurhoth. Gelion The great river of East Beleriand fed by rivers flowing from the Blue Mountains in the region of Ossiriand. Gilim A giant, named by Lúthien in her ‘lengthening’ spell sung over her hair (p. 55), unknown save for the corresponding passage in The Lay of Leithian, where he is called ‘the giant of Eruman’ [a region on the coast of Aman ‘where the shadows were deepest and thickest in the world’]. Gimli A very old and blind Noldorin Elf, long a captive slave in the stronghold of Tevildo, possessed of an extraordinary power of hearing. He plays no part in The Tale of Tinúviel or in any other tale, and never reappears.
Ginglith River flowing into the Narog above Nargothrond. Glómund, Glorund Earlier names of Glaurung, ‘Father of Dragons’, the great dragon of Morgoth. Gnomes Early translation of Noldoli, Noldor: See pp. 32–3. Gods See Valar. Gondolin Gorgol The hidden city founded by Turgon the second son of Fingolfin. the Butcher An Orc slain by Beren. Gorgorath (Also Gorgoroth) The Mountains of Terror; the precipices in which Dorthonion fell southwards. Gorlim One of the companions of Barahir, the father of Beren; he revealed their hiding place to Morgoth (later Sauron). Called Gorlim the Unhappy. Great Lands The lands east of the Great Sea: Middle-earth [a term never used in the Lost Tales]. Great Sea of the West Belegaer, extending from Middle-earth to Aman. Green Elves Grinding Ice The Elves of Ossiriand, called Laiquendi. Helkaraxë: the strait in the far North between Middle-earth and the Western Land. Grond Weapon of Morgoth, a great club known as the Hammer of the Underworld. Guarded Plain Guilwarthon The great plain between the rivers Narog and Teiglin, north of Nargothrond. See i-Cuilwarthon. Gwendeling Earlier name of Melian. Hador A great chieftain of Men, called ‘the Goldenhaired’, grandfather of Húrin father of Túrin, and of Huor father of Tuor father of Eärendel. Haven of the Swans See Notes on the Elder Days, p. 23. Hills of the Hunters (also The Hunters’ Wold) The highlands west of the river Narog. Himling A great hill in the north of East Beleriand, a stronghold of the sons of Fëanor. Hirilorn ‘Queen of Trees’, a great beech-tree near Menegroth (Thingol’s halls); in its branches was the house in which Lúthien was imprisoned. Hisilómë Hithlum. [In a list of names of the period of the Lost Tales it is said: ‘Dor-lómin or the “Land of Shadow” was that region named of the Eldar Hisilómë (and this means “shadowy twilights”) . . . and it is so called by reason of the scanty sun which peeps over the Iron Mountains to the east and south of it.’] Hithlum Huan Húrin See Hisilómë. The mighty wolfhound of Valinor, who became the friend and saviour of Beren and Lúthien. Father of Túrin Turambar and Niënor. Idril Called Celebrindal ‘Silverfoot’, daughter of Turgon King of Gondolin; wedded to Tuor, mother of Eärendel. Ilkorins, Ilkorindi Elves not of Kôr, city of the Elves in Aman (See Kôr). Indravangs (also Indrafangs) ‘Long Beards’, the Dwarves of Belegost.
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Contents Cover Title Page Copyright
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PREFACE After the publication of Th
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NOTES ON THE ELDER DAYS The depth i
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That country came afterwards to be
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BEREN AND LÚTHIEN
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The Tale of Tinúviel in its rewrit
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of the white moths that flew in the
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Valinor. Melian was a fay. In the g
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Iron Mountains until he reached the
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quest, and indeed there was little,
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Now Gwendeling laughed not, for in
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towards Palisor, and there plays su
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Tinúviel was robed in her robe of
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ears, for they twitch already.’ B
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for Tevildo’s wrath was terrible,
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and Melko gazed on enchanted, but h
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him, saying it would be folly to be
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to cutting it open, but Huan licks
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A PASSAGE FROM THE ‘SKETCH OF THE
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A PASSAGE EXTRACTED FROM THE LAY OF
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he found the servants of the king a
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traitor betrayed, now stands! Nor f
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Yet seldom well an outlaw ends, and
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THE QUENTA NOLDORINWA After the Ske
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that burning, and the fumes of it w
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A SECOND EXTRACT FROM THE LAY OF LE
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An everlasting watch they hold, the
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that to Beren son of Barahir mercy
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is now our fate, but not to lose th
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they took; and loathing each him cl
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Foreboding evil weights their mind,
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Death to light, to law, to love! Cu
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and blood flowing they would smell.
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any who could capture her. Each wol
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Doriath. Then the heart of Thingol
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as arrow from a bow of yew; their v
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Curufin spake: ‘Good brother mine
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The perfume of her flower-twined ha
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her eager questions. Out of mind, i
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The others lived no more, but bare
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slim fingers flute and viol seize b
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and each was seized, and there were
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and vanquished betrayed his master
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and there there lie the white bones
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‘For never more to Doriath can Be
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There Curufin had left his life, ha
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long years had sung in those sad li
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eneath the beech and oak we stand,
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and dream thee back in Valinor, whe
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would Huan make, of flowing pace: t
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singing until the midnight hour. Sw
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Fingolfin there: ‘Come, open wide
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