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Cirith Ninniach ‘Rainbow Cleft’, by which Tuor came to the Western Sea; see Annon-in-Gelydh.
Cirith Thoronath ‘Eagles’ Cleft’, a high pass in the mountains north of Gondolin, where Glorfindel fought with a Balrog and fell into the abyss.
Cirth The Runes, first devised by Daeron of Doriath.
Ciryon Third son of Isildur, slain with him at the Gladden Fields.
Corollairë ‘The Green Mound’ of the Two Trees in Valinor; also called Ezellohar.
Crissaegrim The mountain-peaks south of Gondolin, where were the eyries of Thorondor.
Crossings of Teiglin In the southwest of the Forest of Brethil, where the old road southward from the Pass of Sirion crossed the Teiglin.
Cuiviénen ‘Water of Awakening’, the lake in Middle-earth where the first Elves awoke, and where they were found by Oromë.
Culúrien A name of Laurelin.
Curufin The fifth son of Fëanor, called the Crafty; father of Celebrimbor. For the origin of his name see Fëanor; and for his history see Celegorm.
Curufinwë See Fëanor.
Curunír ‘The one of cunning devices’, Elvish name of Saruman, one of the Istari (Wizards).
Cúthalion ‘Strongbow’; see Beleg.
Daeron Minstrel and chief loremaster of King Thingol; deviser of the Cirth (Runes); enamoured of Lúthien and twice betrayed her.
Dagnir One of the twelve companions of Barahir on Dorthonion.
Dagnir Glaurunga ‘Glaurung’s Bane’, Túrin.
Dagor Aglareb ‘The Glorious Battle’, third of the great battles in the Wars of Beleriand.
Dagor Bragollach ‘The Battle of Sudden Flame’ (also simply the Bragollach), fourth of the great battles in the Wars of Beleriand.
Dagorlad ‘Battle Plain’, the place of the great battle north of Mordor between Sauron and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men at the end of the Second Age.
Dagor-nuin-Giliath ‘The Battle-under-Stars’, the second battle in the Wars of Beleriand, fought in Mithrim after the coming of Fëanor to Middle-earth.
Dairuin One of the twelve companions of Barahir on Dorthonion.
Dark Elves In the language of Aman all Elves that did not cross the Great Sea were Dark Elves (Moriquendi), and the term is sometimes used thus, when Caranthir called Thingol a Dark Elf it was intended opprobriously, and was especially so, since Thingol had been to Aman ‘and was not accounted among the Moriquendi’. But in the period of the Exile of the Noldor it was often used of the Elves of Middle-earth other than the Noldor and the Sindar, and is then virtually equivalent to Avari. Different again is the title Dark Elf of the Sindarin Elf Eöl, but Turgon no doubt meant that Eöl was of the Moriquendi.
Dark Lord, The The term is used of Morgoth, and of Sauron.
Days of Flight
Deathless Lands See Undying Lands.
Deldúwath One of the later names of Dorthonion (Taur-nu-Fuin), meaning ‘Horror of Night-shadow’.
Denethor Son of Lenwë; leader of the Nandorin Elves that came at last over the Blue Mountains and dwelt in Ossiriand; slain on Amon Ereb in the First Battle of Beleriand.
Dimbar The land between the rivers Sirion and Mindeb.
Dimrost The falls of Celebros in the Forest of Brethil; translated in the text as ‘the Rainy Stair’. Afterwards called Nen Girith.
Dior Called Aranel, and also Eluchíl ‘Thingol’s Heir’; son of Beren and Lúthien and father of Elwing, Elrond’s mother; came to Doriath from Ossiriand after the death of Thingol, and received the Silmaril after the death of Beren and Lúthien; slain in Menegroth by the sons of Fëanor.
Dispossessed, The The House of Fëanor.
Dol Guldur ‘Hill of Sorcery’, fastness of the Necromancer (Sauron) in southern Mirkwood in the Third Age.
Dolmed ‘Wet Head’, a great mountain in the Ered Luin, near the Dwarf-cities of Nogrod and Belegost.
Dor Caranthir ‘Land of Caranthir’; see Thargelion.
Dor-Cúarthol ‘Land of Bow and Helm’, name of the country defended by Beleg and Túrin from their lair on Amon Rûdh.
Dor Daedeloth ‘Land of the Shadow of Horror’, the land of Morgoth in the north.
Dor Dínen ‘The Silent Land’, where nothing dwelt,