The Silmarillion - J. R. R. Tolkien [187]
Black Years
Blessed Realm See Aman.
Blue Mountains See Ered Luin and Ered Lindon.
Bór A chieftain of the Easterlings, follower with his three sons of Maedhros and Maglor. Sons of Bór.
Borlach One of the three sons of Bór; slain with his brothers in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.
Borlad One of the three sons of Bór; see Borlach.
Boromir Great-grandson of Bëor the Old, grandfather of Barahir father of Beren; first lord of Ladros.
Boron Father of Boromir.
Borthand One of the three sons of Bór; 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 Túrin.
Bregolas Father of Baragund and Belegund; slain in the Dagor Bragollach.
Bregor Father of Barahir and Bregolas.
Brethil The forest between the rivers Teiglin and Sirion, dwelling-place of the Haladin (the People of Haleth).
Bridge of Esgalduin See Iant Iaur.
Brilthor ‘Glittering Torrent’, the fourth of the tributaries of Gelion in Ossiriand.
Brithiach The ford over Sirion north of the Forest of Brethil.
Brithombar The northern of the Havens of the Falas on the coast of Beleriand.
Brithon The river that flowed into the Great Sea at Brithombar.
Brodda An Easterling in Hithlum after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad who took as wife Aerin, kinswoman of Húrin; slain by Túrin.
Cabed-en-Aras Deep gorge in the river Teiglin, where Túrin slew Glaurung, and where Nienor leapt to her death; see Cabed Naeramarth.
Cabed Naeramarth ‘Leap of Dreadful Doom’, name givento Cabed-en-Aras after Nienor leapt from its cliffs.
Calacirya ‘Cleft of Light’, the pass made in the mountains of the Pelóri, in which was raised the green hill of Túna.
Calaquendi ‘Elves of the Light’, those Elves who lived or had lived in Aman (the High Elves). See Moriquendi and Dark Elves.
Calenardhon ‘The Green Province’, name of Rohan when it was the northern part of Gondor; cf. Ard-galen.
Camlost ‘Empty-handed’, name taken by Beren after his return to King Thingol without the Silmaril.
Caragdûr The precipice on the north side of Amon Gwareth (the hill of Gondolin) from which Eöl was cast to his death.
Caranthir The fourth son of Fëanor, called the Dark; ‘the harshest of the brothers and the most quick to anger’; ruled in Thargelion; slain in the assault on Doriath.
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.
Cardolan Region in the south of Eriador, a part of the Kingdom of Arnor.
Carnil Name of a (red) star.
Celeborn (1) ‘Tree of Silver’, name of the Tree of Tol Eressëa, a scion of Galathilion.
Celeborn (2) Elf of Doriath, kinsman of Thingol; wedded Galadriel and with her remained in Middle-earth after the end of the First Age.
Celebrant ‘Silver Lode’, river running from Mirrormere through Lothórien to join the Anduin.
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.
Celebrindal ‘Silverfoot’; see Idril.
Celebros ‘Silver Foam’ or ‘Silver Rain’, a stream in Brethil falling down to Teiglin near the Crossings.
Celegorm The third son of Fëanor, called the Fair; until the Dagor Bragollach lord of the region of Himlad with Curufin his brother; dwelt in Nargothrond and imprisoned Lúthien; master of Huan the wolfhound; slain by Dior in Menegroth.
Celon River flowing southwest from the Hill of Himring, a tributary of Aros. The name means ‘stream flowing down from heights’.
Children of Ilúvatar Also Children of Eru: translations of Híni Ilúvataro, Eruhíni; the Firstborn and the Followers, Elves and Men. Also The Children, Children of the Earth, Children of the World.
Círdan ‘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