H?rin); but in Ad?naic (N?men?rean) and Khuzdul (Dwarvish) names the circumflex is simply used to denote long vowels.
INDEX OF NAMES
Since the number of names in the book is very large, this index provides, in addition to page-references, a short statement concerning each person and place. These statements are not epitomes of all that is said in the text, and for most of the central figures in the narrative are kept extremely brief; but such an index is inevitably bulky, and I have reduced its size in various ways.
The chief of these concerns the fact that very often the English translation of an Elvish name is also used as the name independently; thus for example the dwelling of King Thingol is called both Menegroth and 'The Thousand Caves' (and also both together). In most such cases I have combined the Elvish name and its translated meaning under one entry, with the result that the page-references are not restricted to the name that appears as the heading (e.g., those under Echoriath include those to 'Encircling Mountains'). The English renderings are given separate headings, but only with a simple direction to the main entry, and only if they occur independently. Words in inverted commas are translations; many of these occur in the text (as Tol Eress?a 'the Lonely Isle'), but I have added a great many others. Information about some names that are not translated is contained in the Appendix.
With the many titles and formal expressions in English whose Elvish originals are not given, such as 'the Elder King' and 'the Two Kindreds', I have been selective, but the great majority are registered. The references are in intention complete (and sometimes include pages where the subject of the entry occurs but is not actually mentioned by name) except in a very few cases where the name occurs very frequently indeed, as Beleriand, Valar. Here the word passim is used, but selected references are given to important passages; and in the entries for some of the Noldorin princes the many occurrences of the name that relate only to their sons or their houses have been eliminated.
References to The Lord of the Rings are by title of the volume, book, and chapter.
Adanedhel 'Elf-Man', name given to T?rin in Nargothrond. 258
Adunakh?r 'Lord of the West', name taken by the nineteenth King of N?menor, the first to do so in the Ad?naic (N?men?rean) tongue; his name in Quenya was Herun?men. 330
Adurant The sixth and most southerly of the tributaries of Gelion in Ossiriand. The name means 'double stream', referring to its divided course about the island of Tol Galen. 147, 229, 290
Aeglos 'Snow-point', the spear of Gil-galad. 364
Aegnor The fourth son of Finarfin, who with his brother Angrod held the northern slopes of Dorthonion; slain in the Dagor Bragollach. The name means 'Fell Fire', 64,94, 141, 180-82
Aelin-uial 'Meres of Twilight', where Aros flowed into Sirion. 133,145, 203, 267, 285
Aerandir 'Sea-wanderer', one of the three mariners who accompanied E?rendil on his voyages. 307
Aerin A kinswoman of H?rin in Dor-l?min; taken as wife by Brodda the Easterling; aided Morwen after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. 243, 264
Aftercomers The Younger Children of Il?vatar, Men; translation of Hildor, 92-3, 114
Agarwaen 'Blood-stained', name given to himself by T?rin when he came to Nargothrond. 257
Aglarond 'The Glittering Cavern' of Helm's Deep in Ered Nimrais (see The Two Towers III 8). 361
Aglon 'The Narrow Pass', between Dorthonion and the heights to the west of Himring. 147, 161, 183-4
Ainulindal? 'The Music of the Ainur', also called The (Great) Music, The (Great) Song. 3-9, 18, 21, 37-8, 43-4, 50, 74, 121, 251. Also the name of the account of Creation said to have been composed by R?mil of Tirion in the Elder Days. 82
Ainur 'The Holy Ones' (singular Ainu)', the first beings created by Il?vatar, the 'order' of the Valar and Maiar, made before E?. 3-9, 18, 21, 41, 44, 58, 121, 251, 288
Akallab?th 'The Downfallen', Ad?naic (N?men?rean) word equivalent in meaning to Quenya Atalant?. 347 Also the title of the account of the Downfall of N?menor. 359,360
Alcarinqu? 'The Glorious', name of a star. 48
Alcarondas The great ship of Ar-Pharaz?n in which he sailed to Aman. 343
Aldaron 'Lord of Trees', a Quenya name of the Vala Orom?; cf. Tauron. 22
Aldud?ni? 'Lament for the Two Trees', made by a Vanyarin Elf named Elemm?r?. 84
Almaren The first abode of the Valar in Arda, before the second onslaught of Melkor: an isle in a great lake in the midst of Middle-earth. 30-1, 117
Alqualond? 'Haven of the Swans', the chief city and