I have made this List of Names (restricted to names that occur in the passages of my father’s writing), which is obviously not an index, with two purposes in mind.
Neither of them is in any way essential to the book. In the first place, it is intended to assist a reader who cannot recall, among the mass of names (and forms of names), the reference of one that may be of significance in the narrative. In the second place, certain names, especially those that occur rarely or only once in the texts, are provided with a slightly fuller explanation. For example, while this is obviously of no significance in the tale, one may nonetheless want to know why the Eldar would not touch spiders ‘because of Ungweliant?’ (p. 41).
Aeluin A lake in the northeast of Dorthonion where Barahir and his companions made their lair.
Aglon A narrow pass between Taur-na-Fuin and the Hill of Himring, held by sons of F?anor.
Ainur (singular Ainu) ‘The Holy Ones’: the Valar and the Maiar. [The name Maiar was a late introduction of an earlier conception: ‘With the great ones came many lesser spirits, beings of their ownkind but of smaller might’ (such as Melian).]
Aman The Land in the West beyond the Great Sea in which the Valar dwelt (‘the Blessed Realm’).
Anfauglith ‘The Gasping Dust’. See Dor-na-Fauglith, The Thirsty Plain.
Angainu The great chain, made by the Vala Aul?, in which Morgoth was bound (later Angainor).
Angamandi (plural) ‘The Hells of Iron’. See Angband.
Angband The great dungeon-fortress of Morgoth in the north-west of Middle-earth.
Angrim Father of Gorlim the Unhappy.
Angrod Son of Finrod (later Finarfin).
Arda The Earth.
Artanor ‘The Land Beyond’; region subsequently named Doriath, the kingdom of Tinwelint (Thingol).
Aryador ‘Land of Shadow’, a name of Hisilóm? (Dor-lómin) among Men. See Hisilóm?.
Ascar River in Ossiriand, renamed Rathlorion ‘Goldenbed’ when the treasure of Doriath was sunk in it.
Aul? The great Vala known as Aul? the Smith; he is ‘a master of all crafts’, and ‘his lordship is over all the substances of which Arda is made.’
Ausir A name of Dior.
Balrogs [In the Lost Tales the Balrogs are conceived as existing ‘in hundreds’. They are called ‘demons of power’; they wear iron armour, and they have claws of steel and whips of flame.]
Barahir A chieftain of Men, the father of Beren.
Bauglir ‘The Constrainer’, a name of Morgoth among the Noldor.
Beleg Elf of Doriath, a great archer, called Cúthalion, ‘Strongbow’; close companion and friend of Túrin Turambar, by whom he was tragically slain.
Belegost One of the two great cities of the Dwarves in the Blue Mountains.
Beleriand (earlier name Broseliand) The great region of Middle-earth, largely drowned and destroyed at the end of the First Age, extending from the Blue Mountains in the East to the Mountains of Shadow in the North (See Iron Mountains) and the western coasts.
B?or Leader of the first Men to enter Beleriand. See Edain.
Bitter Hills See Iron Mountains.
Blessed Realm See Aman.
Blue Mountains The great range forming the eastern bounds of Beleriand.
Boldog A captain of Orcs.
Bregolas Brother of Barahir.
Burning Briar The constellation of the Great Bear.
Calacirya A pass in the Mountains of Valinor in which was the city of the Elves.
Carcharoth See Karkaras.
Celegorm Son of F?anor, called ‘the Fair’.
Cranthir Son of F?anor, called ‘the Dark’.
i-Cuilwarthon ‘The Dead that Live Again’, Beren and Lúthien after their return from Mandos; Cuilwarthien: The land where they dwelt. (Later form Guilwarthon.) Cuiviénen The Water of Awakening: the lake in Middle-earth where the Elves awoke.
C?m-nan-Arasaith The Mound of Avarice, raised over the slain in Menegroth.
Curufin Son of F?anor, called ‘the Crafty’.
Dagmor Beren’s sword.
Dairon A minstrel of Artanor, numbered among ‘the three most magic players of the Elves’; originally the brother of Lúthien.
Damrod and Díriel The youngest sons of F?anor. (Later names Amrod and Amras.) Deadly Nightshade A translation of Taur-na-Fuin; See Mountains of Night.
Dior Son of Beren and Lúthien; father of Elwing, the mother of Elrond and Elros.
Doriath The later name of Artanor, the great forested region ruled by Thingol (Tinwelint) and Melian (Gwendeling).
Dor-lómin See Hisilóm?.
Dor-na-Fauglith The great grassy plain of Ard-galen north of the Mountains of Night (Dorthonion) that was transformed into a desert (See Anfauglith, The Thirsty Plain).
Dorthonion ‘Land of Pines’; vast region of pinewoods on the northern borders of Beleriand; afterwards called Taur-na-Fuin, ‘the Forest under Night’.
Dr?n A region to the north of Lake Aeluin; not named elsewhere.
Draugluin Greatest of the werewolves of Th? (Sauron).
E?rám? ‘Eagle’s Pinion’, Tuor’s ship.
E?rendel (later form E?rendil) 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 Son of Finrod (later Finarfin).
Eilinel Wife of Gorlim.
Elbereth ‘Queen of the Stars’; See Varda.
Eldali? (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 E?rendel.
Elros Son of Elwing and E?rendel; first King of Númenor.
Elwing Daughter of Dior, wedded E?rendel, mother of Elrond and Elros.
E?nw? Herald of Manw?.
Erchamion ‘One-handed’, name given to Beren; other forms Ermabwed, Elmavoit?.
Esgalduin River of Doriath, passing Menegroth (the halls of Thingol), and flowing into Sirion.
F?anor Eldest son of Finw?; 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 The second son of Finw?; slain in single combat with Morgoth.
Fingon Eldest son of Fingolfin; king of the Noldor after the death of his father.
Finrod The third son of Finw?. [Name replaced by Finarfin, when Finrod became the name of his son, Finrod Felagund.]
Finw? Leader of the second host of the Elves, the Noldor (Noldoli), on the Great Journey.
Foamriders The kindred of the Eldar named the Solosimpi, later the Teleri; the third and last host on the Great Journey.
Gaurhoth The werewolves of Th? (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.