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 The hidden city founded by Turgon the second son of Fingolfin.
Gorgol 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 The Elves of Ossiriand, called Laiquendi.
Grinding Ice Helkarax?: 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 The great plain between the rivers Narog and Teiglin, north of Nargothrond.
Guilwarthon 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 E?rendel.
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 F?anor.
Hirilorn ‘Queen of Trees’, a great beech-tree near Menegroth (Thingol’s halls); in its branches was the house in which Lúthien was imprisoned.
Hisilóm? 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 Hisilóm? (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 See Hisilóm?.
Huan The mighty wolfhound of Valinor, who became the friend and saviour of Beren and Lúthien.
Húrin Father of Túrin Turambar and Ni?nor.
Idril Called Celebrindal ‘Silverfoot’, daughter of Turgon King of Gondolin; wedded to Tuor, mother of E?rendel.
Ilkorins, Ilkorindi Elves not of K?r, city of the Elves in Aman (See K?r).
Indravangs (also Indrafangs) ‘Long Beards’, the Dwarves of Belegost.
Ingwil River flowing into the Narog at Nargothrond (later form Ringwil).
Iron Mountains Also called the Bitter Hills. A great range corresponding to the later Ered Wethrin, the Mountains of Shadow, forming the southern and eastern borders of Hisilóm? (Hithlum). See Hisilóm?.
Ivár? A renowned minstrel of the Elves, ‘who plays beside the sea’.
Ivrin The lake below the Mountains of Shadow where the Narog rose.
Karkaras The huge wolf that guarded the gates of Angband (later Carcharoth), its tail named in Lúthien’s ‘lengthening spell’; translated ‘Knife-fang’.
K?r City of the Elves in Aman, and the hill on which it was built; later the city became T?n and the hill alone was K?r. [Finally the city became Tirion and the hill Túna.]
Ladros A region to the northeast of Dorthonion.
Lay of Leithian, The See p. 88.
Lonely Isle Tol Eress?a: a large island in the Great Sea near the coasts of Aman; the most easterly of the Undying Lands, where many Elves dwelt.
Lórien The Valar Mandos and Lórien were called brothers, and named the Fanturi: Mandos was Néfantur and Lórien was Olofantur. In the words of the Quenta Lórien was the ‘maker of visions and of dreams; and his gardens in the land of the Gods were the fairest of all places in the world and filled with many spirits of beauty and power.’
Mablung ‘Heavy hand’, Elf of Doriath, chief captain of Thingol; present at the death of Beren in the hunt of Karkaras.
Magic Isles Isles in the Great Sea.
Maglor The second son of F?anor, a celebrated singer and minstrel.
Maiar See Ainur.
Maidros Eldest son of F?anor, called ‘the Tall’ (later form Maedhros).
Mandos A Vala of great power. He is the Judge; and he is the keeper of the Houses of the Dead, and the summoner of the spirits of the slain [the Quenta]. See Lórien.
Manw? The chief and most mighty of the Valar, the spouse of Varda.
Melian The Queen of Artanor (Doriath), earlier name Gwendeling; a Maia, who came to Middle-earth from the realm of the Vala Lórien.
Melko The great evil Vala, Morgoth (later form Melkor).
Menegroth See The Thousand Caves.
Miaul? A cat, cook in the kitchen of Tevildo.
M?m A dwarf, who settled in Nargothrond after the departure of the Dragon and laid a curse on the treasure.
Mindeb A river flowing into Sirion in the region of Doriath.
Mountains of Night The great heights (Dorthonion, ‘Land of Pines’) that came to be called The Forest of Night (Taurfuin, later Taur-na-[-nu-]fuin).
Mountains of Shadow, Shadowy Mountains See Iron Mountains.
Nan The only thing known of Nan seems to be the name of his sword, Glend, named in Lúthien’s ‘lengthening spell’ (See Gilim).
Nan Dumgorthin ‘The land of the dark idols’ where Huan came upon Beren and Lúthien in their flight from Angband. In the alliterative poem the Lay of the Children of Húrin (see p. 78) occur these lines: in Nan Dungorthin where nameless gods
have shrouded shrines in shadows secret,
more old than Morgoth or the ancient lords
the golden Gods of the guarded West.
Nargothrond The great cavernous city and fortress founded by Felagund on the river Narog in West Beleriand.
Narog River in West Beleriand; See Nargothrond. Often used in the sense ‘realm’, i.e. ‘of Nargothrond’.
Naugladur Lord of the Dwarves of Nogrod.
Nauglamír The Necklace of the Dwarves, in which was set the Silmaril of Beren and Lúthien.
Nessa The sister of Orom? and spouse of Tulkas. See Valier.
Nogrod One of the two great cities of the Dwarves in the Blue Mountains.
Noldoli, later Noldor The second host of the Eldar on the Great Journey, led by Finw?.
Oikeroi A fierce warrior-cat in the service of Tevildo, slain by Huan.
Orodreth Brother of Felagund; King of Nargothrond after the death of Felagund.
Orom? The Vala called the Hunter; led on his horse the hosts of the Eldar on the Great Journey.
Ossiriand ‘The Land of Seven Rivers’, Gelion and its tributaries from the Blue Mountains.
Outer Lands Middle-earth.
Palisor The region of the Great Lands where the Elves awoke.
Rathlorion River in Ossiriand. See Ascar.
Ringil The sword of Fingolfin.