Places in Middle-earth
The last ten updated places
- North-gate of Buckland
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Updated: 03/08/10
Type: Fortresses, Towers, Defenses
Region: Bree/The Shire
- Location: The gate in the High Hay at the northern entrance of Buckland, south of the Brandywine Bridge.
- '[The Riders] could have reached here by now, of course, if they were not stopped at the North-gate, where the Hedge runs down to the river-bank, just this side of the Bridge. The gate-guards would not let them through by night, though they might break through. Even in the daylight they would try to...
- Calacirya
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Updated: 03/07/10
Type: Valleys, Caves, Tunnels
Region: Aman
- Location: A pass through the Pelóri delved by the Valar to allow the light of the Two Trees to shine on Elvenhome; contains the hill of Túna.
- [All] aboard... cast looks... to that low place amid the hills where Valinor may just be glimpsed upon the far off plain; and that opening is nigh Taniquetil where is the strand of Eldamar. The Book of Lost Tales 1, HoME Vol 1, Ch 3, The Coming of the Valar and the Building of ValinorBehold there...
- Annon-in-Gelydh
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Updated: 03/07/10
Type: Roads, Lanes, Ways
Region: Beleriand & North
- Location: An entrance to a tunnel delved by the Noldor in the Echoing Mountains, Ered Lómin, connecting western Hithlum to the Rainbow Cleft, leading to the coast near Nevrast.
- [Tuor] went westwards across Dor-lómin, and found Annon-in-Gelydh, the Gate of the Noldor, which the people of Turgon built when they dwelt in Nevrast long years before. Thence a dark tunnel led beneath the mountains, and issued into Cirith Ninniach, the Rainbow Cleft, through which a turbule...
- Cirith Ninniach
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Updated: 03/07/10
Type: Valleys, Caves, Tunnels
Region: Beleriand & North
- Location: A westward pass in the Echoing Mountains, Ered Lómin, connecting the highlands of Hithlum and Dor-lómin on the east with the coastal regions around the Firth of Drengist, between Lammoth and Nevrast.
- [Tuor] went westwards across Dor-lómin, and found Annon-in-Gelydh, the Gate of the Noldor.... Thence a dark tunnel led beneath the mountains, and issued into Cirith Ninniach, the Rainbow Cleft, through which a turbulent water ran towards the western sea. Thus it was that Tuor's flight from Hithlum w...
- Túna
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Updated: 03/07/10
Type: Mountains, Hills, Promontories
Region: Aman
- Location: A high hill built by the Eldar in the Calacirya; the city of Tirion lies on its summit.
- To [the Vanyar and the Noldor] the Valar had given a land and a dwelling-place. Even among the radiant flowers of the Tree-lit gardens of Valinor they longed still at times to see the stars; and therefore a gap was made in the great walls of the Pelóri, and there in a deep valley that ran down to th...
- Longbottom
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Updated: 03/02/10
Type: Valleys, Caves, Tunnels
Region: Bree/The Shire
- Location: A fertile valley in the Southfarthing, famed for the cultivation of pipe-weed.
- When Hobbits first began to smoke is not known.... But all accounts agree that Tobold Hornblower of Longbottom in the Southfarthing first grew the true pipe-weed in his gardens.... The best home-grown still comes from that district, especially the varieties now known as Longbottom Leaf, Old Toby, an...
- Beleriand
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Updated: 02/28/10
Type: Kingdoms, Realms, Lands
Region: Beleriand & North
- Location: The region of the northwest of Middle-earth west of the Blue Mountains; destroyed at the end of the First Age.
- Click for a color map of Beleriand.The name [Beleriand] was said to have signified 'the country of Balar', and to have been given at first to the lands about the mouths of Sirion that faced the Isle of Balar. Later the name spread to include all the ancient coast of the Northwest of Middle-earth sou...
- Tirion
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Updated: 02/28/10
Type: Cities, Towns, Settlements
Region: Aman
- Location: A city of the Elves in the cleft of the Calacirya, upon the green hill of Túna.
- Upon the crown of Túna the city of the Elves was built, the white walls and terraces of Tirion; and the highest of the towers of that city was the Tower of Ingwë, Mindon Eldaliéva, whose silver lamp shone far out into the mists of the sea.... In Tirion upon Túna the Vanyar and the Noldor dwelt long ...
- West Marches
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Updated: 02/25/10
Type: Forests, Fields, Plains
Region: Rohan
- Location: The farthest western extension of Rohan, an elongated triangular peninsula between the rivers Isen (Angren) on the north and Adorn on the southwest.
- The region between Isen and Adorn was declared to be a part of the realm of Eorl at the time of the Oath of Cirion and Eorl.... Unfinished Tales, Part 3, Ch 5, The Battles of the Fords of Isen: Notes, Note 4[In] the south... all those vales and inlets [of Ered Nimrais] that opened northwards were...
- Mindon Eldaliéva
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Updated: 02/22/10
Type: Fortresses, Towers, Defenses
Region: Aman
- Location: A lighthouse in the city of Tirion upon the summit of Túna.
- Upon the crown of Túna the city of the Elves was built, the white walls and terraces of Tirion; and the highest of the towers of that city was the Tower of Ingwë, Mindon Eldaliéva, whose silver lamp shone far out into the mists of the sea. Few are the ships of mortal Men that have seen its slender b...
