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Khîm Son of Mîm the Petty-dwarf, slain by one of Túrin’s outlaw band.
King’s Men Númenóreans hostile to the Eldar and the Elendili.
Kinslaying, The The slaying of the Teleri by the Noldor at Alqualondë.
Ladros The lands to the northeast of Dorthonion that were granted by the Noldorin Kings to the Men of the House of Bëor.
Laer Cú Beleg ‘The Song of the Great Bow’, made by Túrin at Eithel Ivrin in memory of Beleg Cúthalion.
Laiquendi ‘The Green-elves’ of Ossiriand.
Lalaith ‘Laughter’, daughter of Húrin and Morwen who died in childhood.
Lammoth ‘The Great Echo’, region north of the Firth of Drengist, named from the echoes of Morgoth’s cry in his struggle with Ungoliant.
Land of Shadow See Mordor.
Land of the Dead that Live See Dor Firn-i-Guinar.
Land of the Star Númenor.
Lanthir Lamath ‘Waterfall of Echoing Voices’, where Dior had his house in Ossiriand, and after which his daughter Elwing (‘Star-spray’) was named.
Last Alliance The league made at the end of the Second Age between Elendil and Gil-galad to defeat Sauron.
Laurelin ‘Song of Gold’, the younger of the Two Trees of Valinor.
Lay of Leithian The long poem concerning the lives of Beren and Lúthien from which the prose account in The Silmarillion was derived. Leithian is translated ‘Release from Bondage’.
Legolin The third of the tributaries of Gelion in Ossiriand. lembas Sindarin name of the waybread of the Eldar (from earlier lenn-mbass ‘journey-bread’; in Quenya coimas ‘life-bread’).
Lenwë The leader of the Elves from the host of the Teleri who refused to cross the Misty Mountains on the westward journey from Cuiviénen (the Nandor); father of Denethor.
Lhûn River in Eriador flowing into the sea in the Gulf of Lhûn.
Linaewen ‘Lake of birds’, the great mere in Nevrast.
Lindon A name of Ossiriand in the First Age. After the tumults at the end of the First Age the name Lindon was retained for the lands west of the Blue Mountains that still remained above the Sea.
Lindórië Mother of Inzilbêth.
Little Gelion One of the two tributary branches of the river Gelion in the north, rising in the Hill of Himring.
Loeg Ningloron ‘Pools of the golden water-flowers’; see Gladden Fields.
lómelindi Quenya word meaning ‘dusk-singers’, nightingales.
Lómion ‘Son of Twilight’, the Quenya name that Aredhel gave to Maeglin.
Lonely Isle See Tol Eressëa.
Lord of Waters See Ulmo.
Lords of the West See Valar.
Lórellin The lake in Lórien in Valinor where the Vala Estë sleeps by day.
Lorgan Chief of the Easterling Men in Hithlum after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, by whom Tuor was enslaved.
Lórien (1) The name of the gardens and dwelling-place of the Vala Irmo, who was himself usually called Lórien.
Lórien (2) The land ruled by Celeborn and Galadriel between the rivers Celebrant and Anduin. Probably the original name of this land was altered to the form of the Quenya name Lórien of the gardens of the Vala Irmo in Valinor. In Lothlórien the Sindarin word loth ‘flower’ is prefixed.
Lórindol ‘Goldenhead’; see Hador.
Losgar The place of the burning of the ships of the Teleri by Fëanor, at the mouth of the Firth of Drengist.
Lothlann ‘The wide and empty’, the great plain north of the March of Maedhros.
Lothlórien ‘Lórien of the Blossom’; see Lórien (2).
Luinil Name of a star (one shining with a blue light).
Lumbar Name of a star.
Lúthien The daughter of King Thingol and Melian the Maia, who after the fulfilment of the Quest of the Silmaril and the death of Beren chose to become mortal and to share his fate. See Tinúviel.
Mablung Elf of Doriath, chief captain of Thingol, friend of Túrin; called ‘of the Heavy Hand’ (which is the meaning of the name Mablung); slain in Menegroth by the Dwarves.
Maedhros The eldest son of Fëanor, called the Tall; rescued by Fingon from Thangorodrim; held the Hill of Himring and the lands about; formed the Union of Maedhros that ended in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad; bore one of the Silmarils with him to his death at the end of the First Age.
Maeglin ‘Sharp Glance’, son of Eöl and Aredhel Turgon’s sister, born in Nan Elmoth;