J. Tolkien - The Silmarillion

Tumunzahar See Nogrod .

Túna The green hill in the Calacirya on which Tirion, the city of the Elves, was built.

Tuor Son of Huor and Rían, fostered by the Grey-elves of Mithrim; entered Gondolin bearing the message of Ulmo; wedded Idril Turgon’s daughter, and with her and their son Eärendil escaped from the destruction of the city; in his ship Eärrámë set sail into the West.

Turambar ‘Master of Doom’, the last name taken by Túrin, during his days in the Forest of Brethil.

Turgon Called the Wise; the second son of Fingolfin; dwelt at Vinyamar in Nevrast before he departed in secret to Gondolin, which he ruled until his death in the sack of the city; father of Idril the mother of Eärendil: called (like Thingol) the Hidden King .

Tûr Haretha The burial-mound of the Lady Haleth in the Forest of Brethil (see Haudh-en-Arwen ).

Túrin Son of Húrin and Morwen; chief subject of the lay named Narn i Hîn Húrin from which Chapter 21 was derived. For his other names see Neithan, Gorthol, Agarwaen, Mormegil, Wildman of the Woods, Turambar .

Twilight Meres See Aelin-uial .

Two Kindreds Elves and Men.

Two Trees of Valinor .

Uinen A Maia, the Lady of the Seas, spouse of Ossë.

Úlairi See Ring-wraiths .

Uldor Called the Accursed; son of Ulfang the Black; slain by Maglor in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

Ulfang Called the Black; a chieftain of the Easterlings, who with his three sons followed Caranthir, and proved faithless in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

Ulfast Son of Ulfang the Black, slain by the sons of Bór in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

Ulmo A Vala, one of the Aratar, called Lord of Waters and King of the Sea . The name was interpreted by the Eldar to mean ‘The Pourer’ or ‘The Rainer’.

Ulumúri The great horns of Ulmo made by the Maia Sal

Ulwarth Son of Ulfang the Black, slain by the sons of Bór in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

Úmanyar Name given to those Elves who went on the westward journey from Cuiviénen but did not reach Aman: ‘Those not of Aman’, beside Amanyar ‘Those of Aman’.

Úmarth ‘Ill-fate’, a fictitious name for his father given out by Túrin in Nargothrond.

Umbar Great natural haven and fortress of the Númenóreans south of the Bay of Belfalas.

Undying Lands Aman and Eressëa; also called the Deathless Lands .

Ungoliant The great spider, destroyer with Melkor of the Trees of Valinor. Shelob in The Lord of the Rings was ‘the last child of Ungoliant to trouble the unhappy world’ ( The Two Towers IV 9).

Union of Maedhros The league formed by Maedhros to defeat Morgoth that ended in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

Urthel One of the twelve companions of Barahir on Dorthonion.

Urulóki Quenya word meaning ‘fire-serpent’, dragon.

Utumno The first great stronghold of Melkor, in the north of Middle-earth, destroyed by the Valar.

Vairë ‘The Weaver’, one of the Valier, the spouse of Námo Mandos.

Valacirca ‘The Sickle of the Valar’, name of the constellation of the Great Bear.

Valandil Youngest son of Isildur; third King of Arnor.

Valaquenta ‘Account of the Valar’, a short work treated as a separate entity from The Silmarillion proper.

Valar ‘Those with Power’, ‘The Powers’ (singular Vala ); name given to those great Ainur who entered into Eä at the beginning of Time, and assumed the function of guarding and governing Arda. Called also the Great Ones, the Rulers of Arda, the Lords of the West, the Lords of Valinor. Passim ; see also Ainur, Aratar .

Valaraukar ‘Demons of Might’ (singular Valarauko ), Quenya form corresponding to Sindarin Balrog .

Valaróma The horn of the Vala Oromë.

Valier ‘The Queens of the Valar’ (singular Valië ); a term used only in the Valaquenta .

Valimar See Valmar .

Valinor The land of the Valar in Aman, beyond the mountains of the Pelóri; also called the Guarded Realm .

Valmar The city of the Valar in Valinor; the name also occurs in the form Valimar . In Galadriel’s lament in Lórien ( The Fellowship of the Ring II 8) Valimar is made equivalent to Valinor.

Vána One of the Valier, the sister of Yavanna and spouse of Oromë; called the Ever-young .

Vanyar The first host of the Eldar on the westward journey from Cuiviénen, led by Ingwë. The name (singular Vanya ) means ‘the Fair’, referring to the golden hair of the Vanyar; see Finarfin .

Varda ‘The Exalted’, ‘The Lofty’; also called the Lady of the Stars . Greatest of the Valier, the spouse of Manwë, dwelling with him on Taniquetil. Other names of Varda, as maker of the Stars, were Elbereth, Elentári, Tintallë .

Vása ‘The Consumer’, a name of the Sun among the Noldor.

Vilya One of the Three Rings of the Elves, the Ring of Air, borne by Gil-galad and afterwards by Elrond; also called The Ring of Sapphire .

Vingilot (In full Quenya form Vingilótë ). ‘Foam-flower’, the name of Eärendil’s ship; see Rothinzil .

Vinyamar The house of Turgon in Nevrast under Mount Taras. The meaning is probably ‘New Dwelling’.

Voronwë ‘The Steadfast’, Elf of Gondolin, the only mariner to survive from the seven ships sent into the West after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad; met with Tuor at Vinyamar and guided him to Gondolin.

Westernesse See Anadûnê, Númenor .

White Council The Council of the Wise in the Third Age formed to oppose Sauron.

White Mountain See Taniquetil .

White Tree See Telperion, Galathilion, Nimloth (1) . The White Trees of Minas Ithil and Minas Anor.

Wildman of the Woods Name adopted by Túrin when he first came among the Men of Brethil.

Wilwarin Name of a constellation. The word meant ‘butterfly’ in Quenya, and the constellation was perhaps Cassiopeia.

Wizards See Istari .

Woodland Elves See Silvan Elves .

Yavanna ‘Giver of fruits’; one of the Valier, numbered among the Aratar; the spouse of Aulë; called also Kementári .

Year of Lamentation The year of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

These notes have been compiled for those who take an interest in the Eldarin languages, and The Lord of the Rings is extensively drawn upon for illustration. They are necessarily very compressed, giving an air of certainty and finality that is not altogether justified; and they are very selective, this depending both on considerations of length and the limitations of the editor’s knowledge. The headings are not arranged systematically by roots or in Quenya or Sindarin forms, but somewhat arbitrarily, the aim being to make the component elements of names as readily identifiable as possible.

adan (plural Edain ) in Adanedhel, Aradan, Dúnedain . For its meaning and history see Atani in the Index.

aelin ‘lake, pool’ in Aelin-uial ; cf. lin (I).

aglar ‘glory, brilliance’ in Dagor Aglareb, Aglarond . The form in Quenya, alkar , has transposition of the consonants: to Sindarin aglareb corresponds Alkarinquë . The root is kal- ‘shine’, q.v.