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Gorgoroth Ered Gorgoroth, ‘Mountains of Terror’, northward of Nan Dungortheb.
Gothmog Lord of Balrogs, high-captain of Angband, slayer of Fëanor, Fingon, and Ecthelion.
*Great Captain See Tar-Aldarion. *Great Haven See Lond Daer.
*Great Isle See Númenor.
Great Journey The westward march of the Eldar from Cuiviénen.
Great Lands See Middle-earth.
*Great Middle Haven See Lond Daer.
*Great Mound See Haudh-en-Ndengin.
Great Plague The plague that spread out of Rhovanion into Gondor and Eriador in Third Age 1636. The Dark Plague.
Great River See Anduin. Vale of the Great River.
Great Road See Roads.
Great Sea See Belegaer.
Great Worm See Glaurung.
Green-elves The Nandorin Elves of Ossiriand.
Greenway Name in Bree in the later Third Age for the little-used North-South Road, especially the stretch near Bree. See Roads.
Greenwood (the Great) Translation of Eryn Galen; the old name of Mirkwood.
Grey-elves See Sindar. Grey-eleven tongue, see Sindarin. Greyflood See Gwathló.
Grey Havens See Mithlond.
Greyhame ‘Greymantle’, Gandalf’ s name in Rohan.
*Greylin Name given by the Éothéod to a river flowing from Ered Mithrin to join Anduin near its source. (The second element of the name must be Anglo-Saxon hlynn ‘torrent’, the literal meaning of which was probably ‘the noisy one’.)
*Grey Messenger See Mithrandir. Grey Mountains See Ered Mithrin.
Grey Pilgrim, Grey Wanderer See Mithrandir. Gríma Counsellor of King Théoden and agent of Saruman. Called (the) Wormtongue.
Grimbold Rider of Rohan, from Westfold; with Elfhelm leader of the Rohirrim at the Second Battle of the Fords of Isen; died on the Pelennor Fields.
Grinding Ice See Helcaraxë.
*Grithnir Man of Húrin’s household who with Gethron accompanied Túrin to Doriath, where he died.
Guarded Plain See Talath Dirnen.
Guarded Realm See Doriath.
*Guild of Venturers See Venturers.
*Guild of Weaponsmiths (in Númenor).Gulf of Lhûn See Lhûn. Gurthang ‘Iron of Death’, name of Beleg’s sword Anglachel after it was reforged for Túrin in Nargothrond, and from which he was named Mormegil, Blacksword. Called the Black Thorn of Brethil.
Gwaeron Sindarin name of the third month ‘in the reckoning of the Edain’. (With Gwaeron cf. the name of the eagle Gwaihir ‘Windlord’.) See Súlimë.
Gwaith-i-Mírdain ‘People of the Jewel-smiths’, name of the fellowship of craftsmen in Eregion, greatest of whom was Celebrimbor; also simply Mírdain. House of the Mírdain.
*Gwathir ‘River of Shadow’, earlier name of the Gwathló. Gwathló River formed by the junction of Mitheithel and Glanduin, the boundary between Minhiriath and Enedwaith. In Westron called Greyflood. See Battle of the Gwathló; Gwathir, Agathurush.
Gwindor Elf of Nargothrond; enslaved in Angband, but escaped and aided Beleg in the rescue of Túrin; brought Túrin to Nargothrond; loved Finduilas Orodreth’s daughter; slain in the Battle of Tumhalad.
Hador Called Goldenhead, Lord of Dor-lómin, vassal of Fingolfin, father of Galdor father of Húrin; slain at Eithel Sirion in the Dagor Bragollach. House of, people of, kindred of, Hador; son of Hador, Galdor; heir of (the House of) Hador, Túrin. Helm of Hador, see Dragon-helm of Dor-lómin.
Haladin The second people of Men to enter Beleriand; afterwards called the People of Haleth (see Haleth).
Haldir Son of Halmir of Brethil; wedded Glóredhel daughter of Hador of Dor-lómin; slain in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.
Haleth Called the Lady Haleth; leader of the Haladin from Thargelion to the lands west of Sirion. House of, People of, Folk of, Men of, Haleth. See Brethil, Halethrim.
*Halethrim The People of Haleth.
Halflings Hobbits; translation of Sindarin periannath. Land of the Halflings; Halflings’ Leaf. See Perian. Halifirien ‘Holy Mount’, name in Rohan of Amon Anwar. Halifirien Wood. See Eilenaer.
Halimath The ninth month in the Shire Calendar. See Yavannië, Ivanneth.
*Hallacar Son of Hallatan of Hyarastorni; wedded Tar-Ancalimë, first Ruling