Things of Middle-earth
The last ten updated things
- Black Butterflies of Mirkwood
- Updated: 03/09/10
Type: Animals - A type of butterfly native to the forest of Mirkwood, spotted by Bilbo during the Quest of Erebor:The Purple Emperor butterfly, Apatura iris: Tolkien said the black butterflies that Bilbo saw in Mirkwood were a type of these.Two days later... they were in a valley filled almost entirely with a might...
- alfirin
- Updated: 03/09/10
Type: Plants - A white flower that blossoms year-round, found in grassy areas of Gondolin and on burial mounds in Rohan; called either alfirin or uilos by Elves and simbelmynë by the Rohirrim:Then Cirion went up the stair with Eorl and the others followed; and when they came to the summit they saw there a wide ova...
- Narsilion
- Updated: 03/08/10
Type: Songs & Stories - A song made by the dwellers of Aman about the creation of the Sun and Moon:When the Gods heard of the flight of the Gnomes 1 they were aroused from their grief. Manwë summoned then to his council Yavanna; and she put forth all her power, but it availed not to heal the Trees. Yet beneath her spells S...
- Morwinyon
- Updated: 03/08/10
Type: Miscellaneous - Morwinyon is the Quenya name for the bright, reddish star called in real life Arcturus, part of the constellation Boötes, the Herdsman; Arcturus is the third brightest star in the night sky.The bright red star Arcturus in the constellation Boötes: Tolkien named the star Morwinyon.Then did [Varda] de...
- Wilwarin
- Updated: 03/08/10
Type: Miscellaneous - The Quenya name of a constellation, probably the real-life circumpolar cluster of five bright stars shaped like the letter "W" in the constellation Cassiopeia; in the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, where Middle-earth supposedly lies, the constellation is visible above the horizon throu...
- Valacirca
- Updated: 03/08/10
Type: Miscellaneous - Valacirca is the Quenya name for the circumpolar cluster of seven bright stars called in real life the Plough or the Big Dipper, part of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear; in the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, where Middle-earth supposedly lies, the constellation is visible ...
- elanor
- Updated: 03/08/10
Type: Plants - A yellow star-shaped flower found in Tol Eressëa and Lothlórien.Thus the Eldar graced the wedding of Erendis.... Their ship was laden with flowers for the adornment of the feast, so that all that sat there, when evening was come, were crowned with elanor and sweet lissuin.... Unfinished Tales, Pa...
- laurinquë
- Updated: 03/07/10
Type: Plants - An ornamental tree growing in the southeastlands of Númenor:In the Hyarrostar grew an abundance of trees of many kinds, and among them the laurinquë in which the people delighted for its flowers, for it had no other use. This name they gave it because of its long-hanging clusters of yellow flowers; ...
- Telperion
- Updated: 03/07/10
Type: Plants - The original White Tree, elder of the Two Trees of Valinor; its light was made into stars, and its last blossom was made into the Moon; Nimloth, the White Tree of Númenor, and the White Tree of Gondor were some of its scions:And as [the Valar] watched, upon the mound there came forth two slender sho...
- Laurelin
- Updated: 03/07/10
Type: Plants - The Golden Tree, younger of the Two Trees of Valinor; its last fruit was made into the Sun:And as [the Valar] watched, upon the mound there came forth two slender shoots.... Under [Yavanna's] song the saplings grew and became fair and tail, and came to flower; and thus there awoke in the world the T...
