Beeches
From Tolkien Gateway
Beeches (S. neldor[1]) were broad and tall trees that grew throughout Middle-earth, and especially in its northern regions. The most famous beech-forest of all was Neldoreth in Doriath.[2] Hírilorn, the three-trunked tree in which Lúthien was imprisoned, was perhaps the greatest beech that had ever grown.[3] In the attack on Isengard by the Ents, the Ent which caught fire and burned to death was called Beechbone.[4]
In other languages[edit | edit source]
- Primitive Elvish: pheren (from root BERÉTH "beech, birch" and also PHER)[5]
- Quenya: feren/ferne pl. ferni
- Telerin: bredele "beech-tree", ferne
- Ilkorin: galbreth
- Old Noldorin: pheren
- Noldorin: fer pl. ferin and also brethil (from Ilkorin)
- Doriathrin: neldor and also just orn "tree"
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Appendix: Elements in Quenya and Sindarin Names"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Index of Names", Neldoreth
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of Beren and Lúthien"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, "Flotsam and Jetsam"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies"
