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Ost-in-Edhil The city of the Elves in Eregion.
Ostoher Seventh King of Gondor.
palantíri (Singular palantír). The seven Seeing Stones brought by Elendil and his sons from Númenor; made by Fëanor in Aman. (in Part 4 § III frequently referred to as the Stone(s)).
*Palarran ‘Far-Wanderer’, a great ship built by Tar-Aldarion.
*Pallando One of the Blue Wizards (Ithryn Luin).
*Parmaitë Name given to Tar-Elendil. (Quenya parma ‘book’; the second element is no doubt -maitë ‘-handed’, cf. Tar-Telemmaitë).
Parth Celebrant ‘Field (grassland) of Silverlode’; Sindarin name usually translated Field of Celebrant
Parth Galen ‘Green Sward’, a grassy place on the northern slopes of Amon Hen by the shore of Nen Hithoel.
Pass of Caradhras See Caradhras.
Pass of Imladris See Cirith Forn en Andrath.
Pelargir City and haven on the delta of Anduin.
Pelendur Steward of Gondor.
Pelennor (Fields) ‘Fenced Land’, the ‘townlands’ of Minas Tirith, guarded by the wall of Rammas Echor, on which was fought the greatest battle of the War of the Ring.
Pelóri The mountains on the coast of Aman.
Peregrin Took Hobbit of the Shire, one of the Fellowship of the Ring. Called Pippin.
Perian Sindarin word translated Halfling; plural periannath.
Petty-dwarves A race of Dwarves in Beleriand described in The Silmarillion. See Nibin-noeg, Noegyth Nibin.
Pillar, The See Meneltarma.
Pippin See Peregrin Took.
Poros River flowing down from the Ephel Dúath to join Anduin above its delta. See Fords of the Poros.
Púkel-men Name in Rohan for the images on the road to Dun-harrow, but also used as a general equivalent to Drúedain. See Old Púkel-land.
Quendi Original Elvish name for all Elves.
Quenya The ancient tongue, common to all Elves, in the form that it took in Valinor; brought to Middle-earth by the Noldorin exiles, but abandoned by them as a daily speech, save in Gondolin; for its use in Númenor. High Speech of the Noldor, of the West; High-elven.
Radagast One of the Istari (Wizards). See Aiwendil.
*Ragnir A blind servant of Húrin’s house in Dor-lómin.
Rána ‘The Wanderer’, a name of the Moon.
*ranga Númenórean measure, a full pace, slightly longer than a yard.
Rangers The Dúnedain of the North after the end of the North Kingdom, secret guardians of Eriador.
*Ras Morthil A name of Andrast.
Rath Dínen ‘The Silent Street’ in Minas Tirith.
Red Arrow The ‘war-arrow’ sent from Gondor to Rohan as a token of the need of Minas Tirith.
Red Eye The emblem of Sauron.
Red Ring See Narya.
Region The dense forest forming the southern part of Doriath.
Rhosgobel The dwelling of Radagast at the edge of Mirkwood near the Carrock. (The name is stated to mean ‘russet “town”(i.e. enclosure)’.)
Rhovanion Wilderland, the great region east of the Misty Mountains. King of Rhovanion, Vidugavia.
Rhudaur One of the three kingdoms into which Arnor was divided in the ninth century of the Third Age, lying between the Misty Mountains, the Ettenmoors, and the Weather Hills.
Rhûn ‘East’, used generally of the lands of the further East of Middle-earth. Sea of Rhûn.
Rían Wife of Huor and mother of Tuor.
Riddermark See Mark, The.
Riders (i) SeeÉothéod. (ii) Riders of Rohan, see Rohirrim. (iii)
Black Riders , see Nazgûl.
Ringló River in Gondor, joining the Morthond north-east of Dol Amroth. (It is stated that the Ringló ‘drew its first waters from a high snowfield that fed an icy tarn in the mountains. If this at seasons of snow-melting spread into a shallow-lake it would account for the name, another of the many that refer to a river’s source.’ See the account of Gwathló. )
Rings of Power The Rings, Rings of Power . The Ring, the One Ring, the Ruling Ring, the Ring of Power, Gollum’s Ring, Ring of Isildur Nine Rings of Men; Seven Rings of the Dwarves, the last of the Seven; Three Rings of the Elves, and see Narya, Nenya, Vilya. Fellowship of the Ring War of the Ring; the Ringbearer Ringwraiths See Nazgûl.
Rivendell Translation of Sindarin Imladris; Elrond’s dwelling in a deep valley of the Misty Mountains.
Rivil Stream falling northwards