The Silmarillion

Sword See Mormegil.

 

Black Years See 359, 365

 

Blessed Realm See Aman.

 

Blue Mountains See Ered Luin and Ered Lindon.

 

Bor A chieftain of the Easterlings, follower with his three sons of Maedhros and Maglor. 189, 231. Sons of Bor 235

 

Borlach One of the three sons of Bor; slain with his brothers in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. 189

 

Borlad One of the three sons of Bor; see Borlach.

 

Boromir Great-grandson of B?or the Old, grandfather of Barahir father of Beren; first lord of Ladros. 177

 

Boron Father of Boromir. 177

 

Borthand One of the three sons of Bor; see Borlach.

 

Bragollach See Dagor Bragollach.

 

Brandir Called the Lame; ruler of the People of Haleth after the death of Handir his father; enamoured of Nienor; slain by T?rin. 266, 271-7

 

Bregolas Father of Baragund and Belegund; slain in the Dagor Bragollach. 177,182, 187

 

Bregor Father of Barahir and Bregolas. 177

 

Brethil The forest between the rivers Teiglin and Sirion, dwelling-place of the Haladin (the People of Haleth). 142, 176, 187, 190-2, 214, 231, 234, 238, 246, 249, 251, 260, 266, 269-72, 277-8, 282-3

 

Bridge of Esgalduin See Iant Iaur.

 

Brilthor 'Glittering Torrent', the fourth of the tributaries of Gelion in Ossiriand. 147

 

Brithiach The ford over Sirion north of the Forest of Brethil. 157, 163, 176, 190, 253, 281, 282

 

Brithombar The northern of the Havens of the Falas on the coast of Beleriand. 60, 125, 142, 239, 304

 

Brithon The river that flowed into the Great Sea at Brithombar. 239

 

Brodda An Easterling in Hithlum after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad who took as wife Aerin, kinswoman of H?rin; slain by T?rin. 243, 264

 

Cabed-en-Aras Deep gorge in the river Teiglin, where T?rin slew Glaurung, and where Nienor leapt to her death; see Cabed Naeramarth. 272, 275, 278

 

Cabed Naeramarth 'Leap of Dreadful Doom', name given to Cabed-en-Aras after Nienor leapt from its cliffs. 276, 282

 

Calacirya 'Cleft of Light', the pass made in the mountains of the Pel?ri, in which was raised the green hill of T?na. 62, 65, 79, 101, 117-8, 307

 

Calaquendi 'Elves of the Light', those Elves who lived or had lived in Aman (the High Elves). See Moriquendi and Dark Elves, 54, 58, 121, 125

 

Calenardhon 'The Green Province', name of Rohan when it was the northern part of Gondor; cf. Ard-galen. 369

 

Camlost 'Empty-handed', name taken by Beren after his return to King Thingol without the Silmaril. 221, 226

 

Caragd?r The precipice on the north side of Amon Gwareth (the hill of Gondolin) from which E?l was cast to his death. 165

 

Caranthir The fourth son of F?anor, called the Dark; 'the harshest of the brothers and the most quick to anger'; ruled in Thargelion; slain in the assault on Doriath. 63, 93, 131-2, 148, 154, 158, 171, 184, 189, 292

 

Carcharoth The great wolf of Angband that bit off the hand of Beren bearing the Silmaril; slain by Huan in Doriath. The name is translated in the text as 'the Red Maw'. Called also Anfauglir. 218-20, 223-6

 

Cardolan Region in the south of Eriador, a part of the Kingdom of Arnor. 360

 

Carnil Name of a (red) star. 48

 

Celeborn (1) 'Tree of Silver', name of the Tree of Tol Eress?a, a scion of Galathilion. 62, 324

 

Celeborn (2) Elf of Doriath, kinsman of Thingol; wedded Galadriel and with her remained in Middle-earth after the end of the First Age. 134-5, 290, 315, 370

 

Celebrant 'Silver Lode', river running from Mirrormere through Lothl?rien to join the Anduin. 370

 

Celebrimbor 'Hand of Silver', son of Curufin, who remained in Nargothrond when his father was expelled. In the Second Age greatest of the smiths of Eregion; maker of the Three Rings of the Elves; slain by Sauron. 214, 355, 357

 

Celebrindal 'Silverfoof'; see Idril.

 

Celebros 'Silver Foam' or 'Silver Rain', a stream in Brethil falling down to Teiglin near the Crossings. 270

 

Celegorm The third son of F?anor, called the Fair; until the Dagor Bragollach lord of the region of Himlad with Curufin his brother; dwelt in Nargothrond and imprisoned L?thien; master of Huan the wolfhound; slain by Dior in Menegroth. 63, 65-6, 93, 124, 147, 157-8, 161, 183, 204-6, 208-9, 213-5, 223, 230, 292, 355

 

Celon River flowing southwest from the Hill of Himring, a tributary of Aros. The name means 'stream flowing down from heights'. 109, 148, 158, 161, 170, 176, 188

 

Children of Il?vatar Also Children of Eru: translations of Hini Il?vataro, Eruhini; the Firstborn and the Followers, Elves and Men. Also The Children, Children of the Earth, Children of the World. Passim; see especially 7-8, 37-8

 

C?rdan 'The Shipwright'; Telerin Elf, lord of the Falas (coasts of West Beleriand); at the destruction of the Havens after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad escaped with Gil-galad to the Isle of Balar; during the Second and Third Ages keeper of the Grey Havens in the Gulf of Lh?n; at the coming of Mithrandir entrusted to him Narya, the Ring of Fire. 60, 103-4, 110, 124, 133, 142, 153, 194, 239-40, 260, 302, 304-5, 315, 366, 370-3, 378

 

Cirith Ninniach 'Rainbow Cleft', by which Tuor came to the Western Sea; see Annon-in-Gelydh. 294

 

Cirith Thoronath 'Eagles' Cleft', a high pass in the mountains north of Gondolin, where Glorfindel fought with a Balrog and fell into the abyss. 301

 

Cirth The Runes, first devised by Daeron of Doriath. 108

 

Ciryon Third son of Isildur, slain with him at the Gladden Fields. 366

 

Corolla?r? 'The Green Mound' of the Two Trees in Valinor; also called Ezellohar. 33

 

Crissaegrim The mountain-peaks south of Gondolin, where were the eyries of Thorondor. 144, 186, 191, 221, 246, 281

 

Crossings of Teiglin In the southwest of the Forest of Brethil, where the old road southward from the Pass of Sirion crossed the Teiglin. 176, 252, 267, 269, 275, 277, 282

 

Cuivi?nen 'Water of Awakening', the lake in Middle-earth where the first Elves awoke, and where they were found by Orom?. 48, 50-4, 57, 92, 114, 288

 

Cul?rien A name of Laurelin. 33

 

Curufin The fifth son of F?anor, called the Crafty; father of Celebrimbor. For the origin of his name see F?anor; and for his history see Celegorm. 63, 93, 147, 157, 161-2, 183, 204-5, 208-9, 213-5, 222-3, 230,292, 355

 

Curufinw? See F?anor. 67, 75

 

Curun?r 'The one of cunning devices'. Elvish name of Saruman, one of the Istari (Wizards). 372-7

 

C?thalion 'Strongbow'; see Beleg.

 

Daeron Minstrel and chief loremaster of King Thingol; deviser of the Cirth (Runes); enamoured of L?thien and twice betrayed her. 108, 133, 200, 208, 222, 314

 

Dagnir One of the twelve companions of Barahir on Dorthonion. 187

 

Dagnir Glaurunga 'Glaurung's Bane', T?rin. 177, 278

 

Dagor Aglareb 'The Glorious Battle', third of the great battles in the Wars of Beleriand. 135-6, 139, 149

 

Dagor Bragollach 'The Battle of Sudden Flame' (also simply the Bragollach), fourth of the great battles in the Wars of Beleriand. 181, 187, 190, 193, 230, 233, 239, 260

 

Dagorlad 'Battle Plain', the place of the great battle north of Mordor between Sauron and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men at the end of the Second Age. 364, 367

 

Dagor-nuin-Giliath 'The Battle-under-Stars', the second battle in the Wars of Beleriand, fought in Mithrim after the coming of F?anor to Middle-earth. 124

 

Dairuin One of the twelve companions of Barahir on Dorthonion. 187

 

Dark Elves In the language of Aman all Elves that did not cross the Great Sea were Dark Elves (Moriquendi), and the term is sometimes used thus, 121, 131; when Caranthir called Thingol a Dark Elf it was intended opprobriously, and was especially so, since Thingol had been to Aman 'and was not accounted among the Moriquendi' (56). But in the period of the Exile of the Noldor it was often used of the Elves of Middle-earth other than the Noldor and the Sindar, and is then virtually equivalent to Avari (120, 146, 168). Different again is the title Dark Elf of the Sindarin Elf E?l, 158, 162, 247; but at 164 Turgon no doubt meant that E?l was of the Moriquendi.

 

Dark Lord, The The term is used of Morgoth, 280, and of Sauron, 359, 371, 375

 

Day of Flight See 359

 

Deathless Lands See Undying Lands.

 

Deld?wath One of the later names of Dorthonion (Taur-nu-Fuin), meaning 'Horror of Night-shadow'. 186

 

Denethor Son of Lenw?; leader of the Nandorin Elves that came at last over the Blue Mountains and dwelt in Ossiriand; slain on Amon Ereb in the First Battle of Beleriand. 56, 108-9,146

 

Dimbar The land between the rivers Sirion and Mindeb. 144, 157, 191, 214, 246-7, 251-3, 281

 

Dimrost The falls of Celebros in the Forest of Brethil; translated in the text as 'the Rainy Stair'. Afterwards called Nen Girith. 270

 

Dior Called Aranel, and also Eluch?l 'Thingol's Heir'; son of Beren and L?thien and father of Elwing, Elrond's mother; came to Doriath from Ossiriand after the death of Thingol, and received the Silmaril after the death of Beren and L?thien; slain in Menegroth by the sons of F?anor. 229, 290-3, 297, 302, 305, 310, 314

 

Dispossessed, The The House of F?anor. 99, 130

 

Del Guldur 'Hill of Sorcery', fastness of the Necromancer (Sauron) in southern Mirkwood in the Third Age. 372-5

 

Dolmed 'Wet Head' a great mountain in the Ered Luin, near the Dwarf-cities of Nogrod and Belegost 104, 110, 236, 290

 

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