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Durin I Eldest of the the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves. Heir of Durin, Thorin Oakenshield. Durin’s Folk; Durin’s House, House of Durin.

Durin III King of Durin’s Folk in Khazad-dûm at the time of Sauron’s assault on Eregion.

Dwarf-road (i) The road leading down into Beleriand from Nogrod and Belegost and crossing Gelion at Sarn Athrad. (ii) Translating Men-i-Naugrim, a name of the Old Forest Road (see Roads).

Dwarves . See Petty-dwarves.

*Dweller in the Deep, of the Deep See Ulmo. Dwimordene ‘Phantom-vale’, name of Lórien among the Rohirrim.

Eä The World, the material Universe; Eä, meaning in Elvish ‘It is’ or ‘Let it be’, was the word of Ilúvatar when the World began its existence.

Eagles Of the Crissaegrim. Of Númenor (see Witnesses of Manwë). With reference to Gwaihir, who rescued Gandalf from Orthan.

*Eambar Ship built by Tar-Aldarion for his dwelling-place, on which was the Guildhouse of the Venturers. (The name doubtless means ‘Sea-dwelling’.)

Eärendil Son of Tuor and Idril Turgon’s daughter, born in Gondolin; wedded Elwing daughter of Dior Thingol’s Heir; father of Elrond and Elros; sailed with Elwing to Aman and pleaded for help against Morgoth (see 201); set to sail the skies in his ship Vingilot bearing the Silmaril of Lúthien (the Star). The Stone of Eärendil, the Elessar,

*Eärendur (1) Younger brother of Tar-Elendil, born in the year 361 of the Second Age.

Eärendur (2) Fifteenth Lord of Andúnië, brother of Lindórië, grand-mother of Tar-Palantir.

Eärnil II Thirty-second King of Gondor, victor over the Haradrim and the Wainriders in Third Age 1944.

Eärnur Thirty-third and last King of Gondor; died in Minas Morgul.

Eärwen Daughter of King Olwë of Alqualondë, wife of Finarfin, and mother of Finrod, Orodreth, Angrod, Aegnor, and Galadriel.

*East Bight The great indentation in the eastern border of Mirkwood. See Narrows of the Forest.

Easterlings (i) In the First Age, Men who entered Beleriand in the time after the Dagor Bragollach, fought on both sides in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, and were afterwards given Hithlum as a dwelling-place by Morgoth, where they oppressed the remnant of the People of Hador. Called in Hithlum Incomers. (ii) In the Third Age, a general term for the waves of Men driving in upon Gondor from the eastern regions of Middle-earth (see Wainriders, Balchoth).

Eastfold A part of Rohan on the northern slopes of Ered Nimrais, east of Edoras. (The element fold is derived from Anglo-Saxon folde ‘earth, ground, land, region’, as also in The Folde. )

East -mark The eastern half of Rohan in the military organisation of the Rohirrim, bounded from the West-mark by the Snowbourn and the Entwash. Marshal of the East-mark; Muster of the East-mark.

East Road, East-West Road See Roads.

*Echad i Sedryn ‘Camp of the Faithful’, name given to the refuge of Túrin and Beleg on Amon Rûdh.

Echoing Mountains See Ered Lómin.

Echoriath The mountains encircling Tumladen, the plain of Gondolin. Ered en Echoriath; the Encircling Mountains; Mountains of Turgon.

Ecthelion (1) Elf of Gondolin, called Lord of the Fountains and Warden of the Great Gate.

Ecthelion (2) Twenty-fifth Ruling Steward of Gondor, the second of the name; father of Denethor II.

Edain (Singular Adan). The Men of the Three Houses of the Elf-friends (Quenya Atani). See Adanedhel, Drúedain, Dúnedain.

*Edhellond The ‘Elf-haven’ in Belfalas near the confluence of the rivers Morthond and Ringló, north of Dol Amroth. Called Amroth’s haven.

*Edhelrim, Eledhrim ‘The Elves’; Sindarin edhel, eledh and collective plural ending rim (see Appendix to The Simarillion, entry êl, elen).

Edoras ‘The Courts’, name in the Mark-speech of the royal town of Rohan on the northern edge of Ered Nimrais. Muster of Edoras.

Egalmoth Eighteenth Ruling Steward of Gondor.

Eglarest The southernmost of the Havens of the Falas on the coast of Beleriand.

Eilenach Second of the beacons of Gondor in Ered Nimrais, the highest point of the Drúadan Forest.