Things of Middle-earth
The last ten updated things
- Thorin's Letter to Bilbo
- Updated: 02/08/13
Type: Artifacts - The missive left for Bilbo Baggins by Thorin Oakenshield and his company the morning after they arrive at Bag End:Thorin's Letter to Bilbo, by JRR Tolkien.'If you had dusted the mantelpiece you would have found this just under the clock,' said Gandalf, handing Bilbo a note (written, of course, on hi...
- Lay of the Children of Húrin
- Updated: 02/02/13
Type: Songs & Stories - The longest of all Tolkien's narrative poems of Middle-earth, written in alliterative verse. Two versions of the poem are published in The Lays of Beleriand, volume three of The History of Middle-earth. The prose version of this story is the book Narn i Hîn Húrin; a shorter version also appears in U...
- Lay of Leithian
- Updated: 02/02/13
Type: Songs & Stories - The second-longest of all the narrative poems of Middle-earth, the longest being the Lay of the Children of Húrin. This verse, never completed by Tolkien, is nonetheless over 4,220 lines and fourteen cantos long. It tells the story of Beren son of Barahir and Lúthien Tinúviel in a couplet rhyme sche...
- Nauglamír
- Updated: 01/06/13
Type: Gems & Jewelry - The famous jewelled necklace fashioned by the Dwarves:[The] Nauglamír, the Necklace of the Dwarves, most renowned of their works in the Elder Days... was a carcanet of gold, and set therein were gems uncounted from Valinor; but it had a power within it so that it rested lightly on its wearer as a st...
- Silmarils
- Updated: 01/06/13
Type: Gems & Jewelry - The three Jewels made by Fëanor, which captured the light of the Two Trees. They were stolen by Morgoth from Fëanor, which led him and his sons to swear an oath to recover them and take vengeance on any who should withhold them. This oath doomed Fëanor and his sons to battle and tragedy. Beren re...
- Emblem of Arnor
- Updated: 01/06/13
Type: Heraldry - The emblem of the realm of Arnor was a star, symbolizing Gil-Estel, the Star of Eärendil. We know of two artifacts from Arnor that represented the star: the Elendilmir, worn only by the Kings of Arnor, and the Stars of the Dúnedain, worn by the Rangers of the North: The Elendilmir Star, as emblem:...
- Kings of Arnor and Arthedain
- Updated: 01/05/13
Type: Offices & Ranks - The Kings of Arnor and Arthedain were heirs of Isildur who ruled the North Kingdom, or its subrealm of Arthedain: Table of Contents:Description History — Summary — Kings of Arnor and Gondor — Kings of Arnor — Kings of Arthedain — Chieftains of the Dúnedain — Kings of the Reunited Kingdom No...
- Chieftains of the Dúnedain
- Updated: 01/02/13
Type: Offices & Ranks - Family Tree of the Chieftains of the Dúnedain.In the North is the Kingdom of Arnor ruled by the descendants of Isildur.... The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Edited by Humphrey Carpenter, Letter 131 to Milton Waldman, circa 1951[In] the north Arnor dwindles, is broken into petty princedoms, and fin...
- Iron Crown
- Updated: 12/31/12
Type: Artifacts - The great crown that Morgoth created, with the three Silmarils attached to it:[In] Angband Morgoth forged for himself a great crown of iron, and he called himself King of the World. In token of this he set the Silmarils in his crown. His hands were burned black by the touch of those hallowed jewels,...
- Grond – First Age
- Updated: 12/28/12
Type: Weapons - The great war mace 1 wielded by Morgoth in his duel with Fingolfin, the High King of the Noldor, outside Angband in the First Age:Morgoth fought with a great hammer, Grond, that he wielded as a mace, and Fingolfin fought with Ringil. Swift was Fingolfin, and avoiding the strokes of Grond, so th...
