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Wise, The The Istari and the greatest Eldar of Middle-earth. See White Council.
Witch-king See Lord of the Nazgûl, Angmar.
*Witnesses of Manwë The eagles of the Meneltarma.
Wizards See Istari, Heren Istarion, Order of Wizards.
Wold A region of Rohan, the northern part of the Eastemnet (Anglo-Saxon emnet ‘plain’).
Wolf, The Carcharoth, the Wolf of Angband.
*Wolf-folk Name given to the Easterlings of Dor-lómin.
*Wolf-men See Gaurwaith.
Wolfriders Orcs or Orclike beings mounted on wolves.
Woodhall A village in the Shire, at the foot of the Woody End slopes.
*Wood of Anwar See Firien Wood, Amon Anwar.
Woodmen (i) Dwellers in the woods south of Teiglin, harried by the Gaurwaith. (ii) The Men of Brethil. (iii) In Green-wood the Great.
Wormtongue See Gríma.
Woses See Drúedain.
Yavanna One of the Valier (‘Queens of the Valar’), spouse of Aulë.
*yavannamírë ‘Jewel of Yavanna’, a fragrant evergreen tree with scarlet fruit, brought to Númenor by the Eldar of Eressëa.
Yavannië Quenya name of the ninth month according to the Númenórean calendar, corresponding to September. See Ivanneth.
Year of Lamentation The year of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.
yestarë The first day of the Elvish solar year (loa).
*Yôzâyan Adûnaic name for Númenor, ‘Land of Gift’.
*Zamîn Old woman in the service of Erendis.
WORKS BY J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Hobbit
Leaf by Niggle
On Fairy Stories
Farmer Giles of Ham
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
The Lord of the Rings
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
The Road Goes Ever On (with Donald Swann)
Smith of Wootton Major
WORKS PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY
Sir Gawain, Pearl and Sir Orfeo
The Father Christmas Letters
The Silmarillion
Pictures by JRR Tolkien
Unfinished Tales
The Letters of JRR Tolkien
Mr Bliss
Finn and Hengest
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
Roverandom
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH BY CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN
I The Book of Lost Tales Part 1
II The Book of Lost Tales Part 2
III The Lays of Beleriand
IV The Shaping of Middle-earth
V The Lost Road and Other Writings
VI The Return of the Shadow
VII The Treason of Isengard
VIII The War of the Ring
IX Sauron Defeated
X Morgoth’s Ring
XI The War of the Jewels
XII The Peoples of Middle-earth
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