Things of Middle-earth
Lár
Type: Calendars & Measurements
Meaning: pause
Description:A Númenórean unit of distance equaling five thousand rangar, or close to three miles (4.8 km) Lár is known as ‘pause’ because “except during forced marches a brief halt was usually made after this distance was covered.”
Unfinished Tales, Part 3, Ch I, The Diaster of the Gladden Fields, Appendix “Númenórean Linear Measures”
Contributors: Information courtesy of granamyr 7.06.03
