Names that appear in the map of Beleriand are followed by an asterisk.
Adanedhel — ‘Elf-man’, name given to Túrin in Nargothrond.
Aerin — A kinswoman of Húrin in Dor-lómin, taken as wife by Brodda the Easterling.
Agarwaen — ‘Bloodstained’, name taken by Túrin when he came to Nargothrond.
Ainur — ‘The Holy Ones’, the first beings created by Ilúvatar, who were before the World: the Valar and the Maiar (‘spirits of the same order as the Valar but of less degree’).
Algund — Man of Dor-lómin, member of the outlaw band that Túrin joined.
Amon Darthir* — A peak in the range of Ered Wethrin south of Dor-lómin.
Amon Ethir — ‘Hill of Spies’, a great earthwork raised by Finrod Felagund a league to the east of Nargothrond.
Amon Obel* — A hill in the midst of the Forest of Brethil, on which was built Ephel Brandir.
Amon Rûdh* — ‘The Bald Hill’, a lonely height in the lands south of Brethil, abode of Mîm.
Anach* — Pass leading down from Taur-nu-Fuin at the western end of Ered Gorgoroth.
Andróg — Man of Dor-lómin, a leader of the outlaw band that Túrin joined.
Anfauglith* — ‘Gasping Dust’, the great plain north of Taur-nu-Fuin, once grassy and named Ardgalen, but transformed into a desert by Morgoth in the Battle of Sudden Flame.
Angband — The great fortress of Morgoth in the North-west of Middle-earth.
Anglachel — Beleg’s sword, the gift of Thingol; after its reforging for Túrin named Gurthang.
Angrod — Third son of Finarfin, slain in the Dagor Bragollach.
Anguirel — Eöl’s sword.
Aranrúth — ‘King’s Ire’, Thingol’s sword.
Arda — The Earth.
Aredhel — Sister of Turgon, wife of Eöl.
Arminas — Noldorin Elf who came with Gelmir to Nargothrond to warn Orodreth of its peril.
Arroch — Húrin’s horse.
Arvernien* — The coastlands of Beleriand west of Sirion’s mouths; named in Bilbo’s song in Rivendell.
Asgon — Man of Dor-lómin who aided Túrin’s escape after the slaying of Brodda.
Azaghâl — Lord of the Dwarves of Belegost.
Barad Eithel — ‘Tower of the Well’, the fortress of the Noldor at Eithel Sirion.
Baragund — Father of Morwen; cousin of Beren.
Barahir — Father of Beren; brother of Bregolas.
Bar-en-Danwedh — ‘House of Ransom’, name given by Mîm to his house.
Bar-en-Nibin-noeg — ‘House of the Petty-dwarves’ on Amon Rûdh.
Bar Erib — A stronghold of Dor-Cúarthol south of Amon Rûdh.
Battle of Unnumbered Tears — See Nirnaeth Arnoediad.
Bauglir — ‘The Constrainer’, name given to Morgoth.
Beleg — Elf of Doriath, a great archer; friend and companion of Túrin. Called Cúthalion ‘Strongbow’.
Belegost — ‘Great Fortress’, one of the two cities of the Dwarves in the Blue Mountains.
Belegund — Father of Rían; brother of Baragund.
Beleriand* — Lands west of the Blue Mountains in the Elder Days.
Belthronding — Beleg’s bow.
Bëor — Leader of the first Men to enter Beleriand; progenitor of the House of Bëor, one of the three Houses of the Edain.
Beren — Man of the House of Bëor, lover of Lúthien, who cut a Silmaril from Morgoth’s crown; called ‘One-hand’ and Camlost ‘Empty-handed’.
Black King, The — Morgoth.
Black Sword, The — Túrin’s name in Nargothrond; also the sword itself. See Mormegil.
Blue Mountains — The great mountain chain (called Ered Luin and Ered Lindon) between Beleriand and Eriador in the Elder Days.
Bragollach — See Dagor Bragollach.
Brandir — Ruler of the People of Haleth in Brethil when Túrin came; son of Handir.
Bregolas — Father of Baragund; Morwen’s grandfather.
Bregor — Father of Barahir and Bregolas.
Brethil* — Forest between the rivers Teiglin and Sirion; Men of Brethil, the People of Haleth.
Brithiach* — Ford over Sirion north of the Forest of Brethil.
Brodda — An Easterling in Hithlum after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.
Cabed-en-Aras — ‘The Deer’s Leap’, a deep gorge of the river Teiglin where Túrin slew Glaurung.
Cabed Naeramarth — ‘The Leap of Dreadful Doom’, name given to Cabed-en-Aras after Niënor leapt from its cliffs.
Celebros — Stream in Brethil falling down to Teiglin near the Crossings.
Children of Ilúvatar — Elves and Men.
Círdan — Called ‘the Shipwright’; lord of the Falas; at the destruction of the Havens after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad he escaped to the Isle of Balar in the south.
Crissaegrim* — The mountain peaks south of Gondolin, where were the eyries of Thorondor.
Crossings of Teiglin* — Fords where the old South Road to Nargothrond crossed the Teiglin.
Cúthalion — ‘Strongbow’, name of Beleg.
Daeron — Minstrel of Doriath.
Dagor Bragollach (also the Bragollach) — The Battle of Sudden Flame, in which Morgoth ended the Siege of Angband.
Dark Lord, The — Morgoth.
Deer’s Leap, The — See Cabed-en-Aras.
Dimbar* — The land between the rivers Sirion and Mindeb.
Dimrost — ‘The Rainy Stair’, the falls of Celebros in the Forest of Brethil, afterwards called Nen Girith.
Dor-Cúarthol — ‘Land of Bow and Helm’, name given to the country defended by Túrin and Beleg from their lair on Amon Rûdh.
Doriath* — The kingdom of Thingol and Melian in the forests of Neldoreth and Region, ruled from Menegroth on the river Esgalduin.
Dorlas — A man of consequence among the People of Haleth in the Forest of Brethil.
Dor-lómin* — Region in the south of Hithlum given by King Fingolfin as a fief to the House of Hador; the home of Húrin and Morwen.
Dorthonion* — ‘Land of Pines’, great forested highlands on the northern borders of Beleriand, afterwards named Taurnu-Fuin.
Drengist* — Long firth of the sea piercing Ered Lómin, the Echoing Mountains.
Easterlings — Tribes of Men who followed the Edain into Beleriand.
Echad i Sedryn — (also the Echad) ‘Camp of the Faithful’, name given to Mîm’s house on Amon Rûdh.
Ecthelion — Elf-lord of Gondolin.
Edain — (singular Adan) The Men of the Three Houses of the Elf-friends.
Eithel Ivrin* — ‘Ivrin’s Well’, the source of the river Narog beneath Ered Wethrin.
Eithel Sirion* — ‘Sirion’s Well’, in the eastern face of Ered Wethrin; the fortress of the Noldor in that place, also called Barad Eithel.
Eldalië — The Elven-folk, equivalent to Eldar.
Eldar — The Elves of the Great Journey out of the East to Beleriand.
Elder Children — The Elves. See Children of Ilúvatar.
Eledhwen — Name of Morwen, ‘Elfsheen’.
Encircling Mountains — The mountains encircling Tumladen, the plain of Gondolin.
Enemy, The — Morgoth.
Eöl — Called ‘the Dark Elf’, a great smith who dwelt in Nan Elmoth; maker of the sword Anglachel; father of Maeglin.
Ephel Brandir — ‘The Fence of Brandir’, the enclosed dwellings of the Men of Brethil upon Amon Obel; also the Ephel.
Ered Gorgoroth* — ‘Mountains of Terror’, the vast precipices in which Taur-nu-Fuin fell southward; also the Gorgoroth.
Ered Wethrin — ‘Shadowy Mountains’, ‘Mountains of Shadow’, the great range forming the boundary of Hithlum on the east and south.
Esgalduin* — The river of Doriath, dividing the forests of Neldoreth and Region and flowing into Sirion.
Exiles, The — The Noldor who rebelled against the Valar and returned to Middle-earth.
Faelivrin — Name given to Finduilas by Gwindor.
Fair Folk — The Eldar.
Falas* — The coastlands of Beleriand in the West.
Fëanor — Eldest son of Finwë, the first leader of the Noldor; half-brother of Fingolfin; maker of the Silmarils; leader of the Noldor in their rebellion against the Valar, but slain in battle soon after his return to Middle-earth. See Sons of Fëanor.
Felagund — ‘Hewer of caves’, name given to King Finrod after the establishment of Nargothrond and often used alone.
Finarfin — Third son of Finwë, brother of Fingolfin and half-brother of Fëanor; father of Finrod Felagund and Galadriel. Finarfin did not return to Middle-earth.
Finduilas — Daughter of Orodreth, second King of Nargothrond.
Fingolfin — Second son of Finwë, the first leader of the Noldor; High King of the Noldor, dwelling in Hithlum; father of Fingon and Turgon.
Fingon — Eldest son of King Fingolfin, and High King of the Noldor after his death.
Finrod — Son of Finarfin; founder and king of Nargothrond, brother of Orodreth and Galadriel; often called Felagund.
Forweg — Man of Dor-lómin, captain of the outlaw band that Túrin joined.
Galdor the Tall — Son of Hador Goldenhead; father of Húrin and Huor; slain at Eithel Sirion.
Gamil Zirak — Dwarf smith, teacher of Telchar of Nogrod.
Gaurwaith — ‘Wolf-men’, the outlaw band that Túrin joined in the woodlands beyond the western borders of Doriath.
Gelmir (1) — Elf of Nargothrond, brother of Gwindor.
Gelmir (2) — Noldorin Elf who came with Arminas to Nargothrond to warn Orodreth of its peril.
Gethron — One of Túrin’s companions on the journey to Doriath.
Ginglith* — River flowing into the Narog above Nargothrond.
Girdle of Melian — See Melian.
Glaurung — ‘Father of Dragons’, the first of the Dragons of Morgoth.
Glithui* — River flowing down from Ered Wethrin and joining Teiglin north of the inflow of Malduin.
Glóredhel — Daughter of Hador, sister of Galdor Húrin’s father; wife of Haldir of Brethil.
Glorfindel — Elf-lord of Gondolin.
Gondolin* — The hidden city of King Turgon.
Gorgoroth — See Ered Gorgoroth.
Gorthol — ‘Dread Helm’, name taken by Túrin in the land of Dor-Cúarthol.
Gothmog — Lord of Balrogs; slayer of King Fingon.
Great Mound, The — See Haudh-en-Nirnaeth.
Great Song, The — The Music of the Ainur, in which the World was begun.
Grey-elves — The Sindar, name given to the Eldar who remained in Beleriand and did not cross the Great Sea into the West.
Grithnir — One of Túrin’s companions on the journey to Doriath, where he died.
Guarded Plain, The* — See Talath Dirnen.
Guarded Realm, The — Doriath.
Guilin — Elf of Nargothrond, father of Gwindor and Gelmir.
Gurthang — ‘Iron of Death’, Túrin’s name for the sword Anglachel after it was reforged in Nargothrond.
Gwaeron — The ‘windy month’, March.
Gwindor — Elf of Nargothrond, lover of Finduilas, companion of Túrin.
Hador Goldenhead — Elf-friend, lord of Dor-lómin, vassal of King Fingolfin; father of Galdor father of Húrin and Huor; slain at Eithel Sirion in the Dagor Bragollach. House of Hador, one of the Houses of the Edain.
Haldir — Son of Halmir of Brethil; wedded Glóredhel daughter of Hador of Dor-lómin.
Haleth — The Lady Haleth, who early became the leader of the Second House of the Edain, the Halethrim or People of Haleth, who dwelt in the Forest of Brethil.
Halmir — Lord of the Men of Brethil.
Handir of Brethil — Son of Haldir and Glóredhel; father of Brandir.
Hareth — Daughter of Halmir of Brethil, wife of Galdor of Dor-lómin; mother of Húrin.
Haudh-en-Elleth — ‘The Mound of the Elf-maid’ near the Crossings of Teiglin, in which Finduilas was buried.
Haudh-en-Nirnaeth — ‘The Mound of Tears’ in the desert of Anfauglith.
Hidden Kingdom, The — Doriath.
Hidden Realm, The — Gondolin.
High Faroth, The* — Highlands to the west of the river Narog above Nargothrond; also the Faroth.
Hírilorn — A great beech-tree in the Forest of Neldoreth with three trunks.
Hithlum* — ‘Land of Mist’, northern region bounded by the Mountains of Shadow.
Hunthor — Man of Brethil, companion of Túrin in the attack on Glaurung.
Huor — Húrin’s brother; father of Tuor father of Eärendil; slain in the Battle of Unnumbered Tears.
Húrin — Lord of Dor-lómin, husband of Morwen and father of Túrin and Niënor; called Thalion ‘the Steadfast’.
Ibun — One of the sons of Mîm the Petty-dwarf.
Ilúvatar — ‘The Father of All’.
Indor — Man of Dor-lómin, father of Aerin.
Ivrin* — Lake and falls beneath Ered Wethrin where the river Narog rose.
Khîm — One of the sons of Mîm the Petty-dwarf, slain by Andróg’s arrow.
Labadal — Túrin’s name for Sador.
Ladros* — Lands to the north-east of Dorthonion that were granted by the Noldorin kings to the Men of the House of Bëor.
Lady of Dor-lómin — Morwen.
Lalaith — ‘Laughter’, name given to Urwen.
Larnach — One of the Woodmen in the lands south of Teiglin.
Lord of Waters — The Vala Ulmo.
Lords of the West — The Valar.
Lothlann — A great plain to the east of Dorthonion (Taur-nu-Fuin).
Lothron — The fifth month.
Lúthien — Daughter of Thingol and Melian, who after the death of Beren chose to become mortal and to share his fate. Called Tinúviel ‘daughter of twilight’, nightingale.
Mablung — Elf of Doriath, chief captain of Thingol, friend of Túrin; called ‘the Hunter’.
Maedhros — Eldest son of Fëanor, with lands in the east beyond Dorthonion.
Maeglin — Son of Eöl ‘the Dark Elf’ and Aredhel Turgon’s sister; betrayer of Gondolin.
Malduin* — A tributary of the Teiglin.
Mandos — A Vala: the Judge, and Keeper of the Houses of the Dead in Valinor.
Manwë — The chief of the Valar; called the Elder King.
Melian — A Maia (see entry Ainur); the queen of King Thingol in Doriath, about which she set an invisible barrier of protection, the Girdle of Melian; mother of Lúthien.
Melkor — The Quenya name of Morgoth.
Menegroth* — ‘The Thousand Caves’, the halls of Thingol and Melian on the river Esgalduin in Doriath.
Menel — The heavens, region of the stars.
Methed-en-glad — ‘End of the wood’, a stronghold of Dor-Cúarthol at the edge of the forest south of Teiglin.
Mîm — The Petty-dwarf, dwelling on Amon Rûdh.
Minas Tirith — ‘Tower of Watch’, built by Finrod Felagund on Tol Sirion.
Mindeb* — A tributary of Sirion, between Dimbar and the Forest of Neldoreth.
Mithrim* — The south-eastern region of Hithlum, separated from Dor-lómin by the Mountains of Mithrim.
Morgoth — The great rebellious Vala, in his origin the mightiest of the Powers; called the Enemy, the Dark Lord, the Black King, Bauglir.
Mormegil — ‘Black Sword’, name given to Túrin in Nargothrond.
Morwen — Daughter of Baragund of the House of Bëor; wife of Húrin and mother of Túrin and Niënor; called Eledhwen ‘Elfsheen’ and Lady of Dor-lómin.
Mountains of Shadow* — See Ered Wethrin.
Nan Elmoth* — A forest in East Beleriand; dwelling-place of Eöl.
Nargothrond* — ‘The great underground fortress on the river Narog’, founded by Finrod Felagund, destroyed by Glaurung; also the realm of Nargothrond extending east and west of the river.
Narog* — The chief river of West Beleriand, rising at Ivrin and flowing into Sirion near its mouths. People of Narog, the Elves of Nargothrond.
Neithan — ‘The Wronged’, name given to himself by Túrin among the outlaws.
Nellas — Elf of Doriath, friend of Túrin in his boyhood.
Nen Girith — ‘Shuddering Water’, name given to Dimrost, the falls of Celebros in Brethil.
Nen Lalaith — Stream rising under Amon Darthir, a peak in Ered Wethrin, and flowing past Húrin’s house in Dor-lómin.
Nenning* — River in West Beleriand, reaching the Sea at the Haven of Eglarest.
Nevrast* — Region west of Dor-lómin, beyond the Echoing Mountains* (Ered Lómin).
Nibin-noeg, Nibin-nogrim — Petty-dwarves.
Niënor — ‘Mourning’, daughter of Húrin and Morwen, and sister of Túrin; see Níniel.
Nimbrethil* — Birchwoods in Arvernien; named in Bilbo’s song in Rivendell.
Níniel — ‘Maid of Tears’, name that Túrin gave to Niënor in Brethil.
Nirnaeth Arnoediad — The Battle of ‘Unnumbered Tears’, also the Nirnaeth.
Nogrod — One of the two cities of the Dwarves in the Blue Mountains.
Noldor — The second host of the Eldar on the Great Journey out of the East to Beleriand; the ‘Deep Elves’, ‘the Loremasters’.
Núath, Woods of* — Woods extending westward from the upper waters of the Narog.
Orleg — A man of Túrin’s outlaw band.
Orodreth — King of Nargothrond after the death of his brother Finrod Felagund; father of Finduilas.
Ossë — A Maia (see entry Ainur); vassal of Ulmo Lord of Waters.
Petty-dwarves — A race of Dwarves in Middle-earth of whom Mîm and his two sons were the last survivors.
Powers, The — The Valar.
Ragnir — A blind servant in Húrin’s house in Dor-lómin.
Region* — The southern forest of Doriath.
Rían — Cousin of Morwen; wife of Huor Húrin’s brother; mother of Tuor.
Rivil* — Stream falling from Dorthonion to join Sirion in the Fen of Serech.
Sador — Woodwright, serving-man of Húrin’s in Dor-lómin and friend of Túrin in his childhood, by whom he was called Labadal.
Saeros — Elf of Doriath, a counsellor of Thingol, hostile to Túrin.
Sauron’s Isle — Tol Sirion.
Serech* — The great fen north of the Pass of Sirion, where the river Rivil flowed in from Dorthonion.
Shadowy Mountains — See Ered Wethrin.
Sharbhund — Dwarvish name of Amon Rûdh.
Sindarin — Grey-elven, the Elvish tongue of Beleriand. See Grey-elves.
Sirion* — The great river of Beleriand, rising at Eithel Sirion.
Sons of Fëanor — See Fëanor. The seven sons held lands in East Beleriand.
South Road* — The ancient road from Tol Sirion to Nargothrond by the Crossings of Teiglin.
Spyhill, The — See Amon Ethir.
Strawheads — Name given to the People of Hador by the Easterlings in Hithlum.
Strongbow — Name of Beleg; see Cúthalion.
Talath Dirnen* — ‘The Guarded Plain’, north of Nargothrond.
Taur-nu-Fuin* — ‘Forest under Night’, later name of Dorthonion.
Teiglin* — A tributary of Sirion rising in the Shadowy Mountains and flowing through the Forest of Brethil. See Crossings of Teiglin.
Telchar — Renowned smith of Nogrod.
Telperion — The White Tree, elder of the Two Trees that gave light to Valinor.
Thangorodrim — ‘Mountains of Tyranny’, reared by Morgoth over Angband.
Thingol — ‘Greycloak’, King of Doriath, overlord of the Grey-elves (Sindar); wedded to Melian the Maia; father of Lúthien.
Thorondor — ‘King of Eagles’ (cf. The Return of the King VI.4: ‘old Thorondor, who built his eyries in the inaccessible peaks of the Encircling Mountains when Middle-earth was young’).
Three Houses (of the Edain) — The Houses of Bëor, Haleth, and Hador.
Thurin — ‘The Secret’, name given to Túrin by Finduilas.
Tol Sirion* — Island in the river in the Pass of Sirion on which Finrod built the tower of Minas Tirith; afterwards taken by Sauron.
Tumhalad* — Valley in West Beleriand between the rivers Ginglith and Narog where the host of Nargothrond was defeated.
Tumladen — The hidden vale in the Encircling Mountains where the city of Gondolin stood.
Tuor — Son of Huor and Rían; cousin of Túrin and father of Eärendil.
Turambar — ‘Master of Doom’, name taken by Túrin among the Men of Brethil.
Turgon — Second son of King Fingolfin and brother of Fingon; founder and king of Gondolin.
Túrin — Son of Húrin and Morwen, chief subject of the lay named Narn i Chîn Húrin. For his other names see Neithan, Gorthol, Agarwaen, Thurin, Adanedhel, Mormegil (Black Sword), Wild Man of the Woods, Turambar.
Twilit Meres* — Region of marshes and pools where the Aros flowed into Sirion.
Uldor the Accursed — A leader of the Easterlings who was slain in the Battle of Unnumbered Tears.
Ulmo — One of the great Valar, ‘Lord of Waters’.
Ulrad — A member of the outlaw band that Túrin joined.
Úmarth — ‘Ill-fate’, a fictitious name for his father given out by Túrin in Nargothrond.
Unnumbered Tears — The battle of Nirnaeth Arnoediad.
Urwen — Daughter of Húrin and Morwen who died in childhood; called Lalaith ‘Laughter’.
Valar — ‘The Powers’, those great spirits that entered the World at the beginning of time.
Valinor — The land of the Valar in the West, beyond the Great Sea.
Varda — The greatest of the Queens of the Valar, the spouse of Manwë.
Wildman of the Woods — Name taken by Túrin when he first came among the Men of Brethil.
Wolf-men — See Gaurwaith.
Woodmen — Dwellers in the woods south of Teiglin, plundered by the Gaurwaith.
Year of Lamentation — The year of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.
Younger Children — Men. See Children of Ilúvatar.