Gwaith i Innas Lain: Quenta Ando Rauco Glossary

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Glossary

Gwaith i Innas Lain: Team Free Will
Quenta Ando Rauco: The History of the Devil’s Gate
Ancalagon – greatest of dragons, slain at the end of the First Age
Ada – Dad
Adanedhel – Elf-man
Agarwaen son of Úmarth – Blood-stained, son of Ill-fate
Aman – The Blessed Realm, the continent where the Valar settled; once part of Arda, but removed to a different plane during the Breaking of the World, when Arda was changed from a flat planet to a globe, and now accessible only by the Straight Road, which is hidden from mortal eyes
Arda – Earth
Atani – Men (general term for humans)

Beleriand – region in First Age Middle-earth where most of the events of The Silmarillion take place; largely destroyed during the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age and lost completely in the Breaking of the World in the Second Age
Black Speech – language invented by Sauron for the use of his minions (preserved for us mainly in the inscription on the One Ring)

Curumo – Saruman’s name in Valinor

Dagor Dagorath – the Last Battle/Armageddon (lit. “the battle of battles”)
Dithanc – “Divided Below,” a (very) approximate translation of Azazel
Dúnedain – Men of the West (singular Dúnadan); descendants of the Three Houses of the Elf-friends, some of whom have both Elven and human ancestry

Eldar – Elves
Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo – A star shines on the hour of our meeting
Elentári – Star-queen (Sindarin Elbereth); another name for Varda, creator of the stars
Entulessë Morgotheva – the Return of Morgoth

fëar – souls
Firstborn – Elves

Glaurung – eldest of dragons, who placed a spell on Túrin and was later killed by him

the Houseless – evil spirits, mainly souls of slain Elves who refused to go West, capable of possessing the unwary
hroar – bodies

I ’ell nîn – It is my pleasure (according to Realelvish.org)
Isil – the Moon (Sindarin Ithil)

Kinslayer – Maglor and his brothers had some really bad ideas in the First Age that led to their killing other Elves

Le hannon – Thank you

Morgoth – the original Dark Lord (~ Lucifer)
Mormegil – Black Sword (Túrin’s sword Gurthang was made of a black metal from a meteorite)

Navaer, nîn vellyn – Farewell, my friends
Neithan – The Wronged
Noro lim – Ride on (go faster)

palantír – seeing-stone (lit. “far-sight”)

Quenya – High Elvish, the language common among Elves in Aman

Secondborn – Men (humankind)
Silmarils – greatest and holiest of jewels ever made by Fëanor
Sindarin – Elvish language common among Elves and some Men in Middle-earth
the Song – The Ainur (~ angels) sang the universe into existence, and that Song includes all of history, though neither the Valar nor the Elves know many of its details; Maglor, being an Elf and a bard, is particularly attuned to it

Tulië – April/May
Turambar – Master of Fate

Um siniath – Evil tidings
the Unhoused – see Houseless

Valarin – language of the Valar