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| Nogrod | |
|---|---|
| General Information | |
| Other names | Hollowbold, K. Tumunzahar, Q. Návarot |
| Location | Blue Mountains, south-east of Mount Dolmed |
| People | |
| Population | Dwarves of Nogrod |
| Language | Khuzdul, Sindarin |
| Governance | Lord of Nogrod |
| History | |
| Founded | Between Y.T. 1050 and Y.T. 1250[1][2] |
| Destroyed | F.A. 587 |
| Abandoned | S.A. 40 |
| Followed By | Khazad-Dûm |
| Gallery | Images of Nogrod |
Nogrod was one of two great underground Dwarven cities in the Ered Luin, the other being Belegost, that prospered during the First Age. It was home to the Dwarves of Nogrod.
Geography
Nogrod was delved in the eastern side of the north-central part and of the Blue Mountains southeast of Mount Dolmed[1] where the Dwarf-road of Beleriand crossed into Eriador,[3][4][5] guarding one of the only passes over the Blue Mountains[6] not far from lake Nenuial.[7]
History
The city was built sometime during the Years of the Trees when the western Fathers of the Dwarves awoke from beneath the Ered Luin.[2]
Nogrod traded throughout Beleriand and the Dwarves were employed for delvings and crafts, most famously the Nauglamir for King Thingol.[8] Eöl the Dark Elf often went there, as did his son Maeglin.[1]
At the end of the First Age, Nogrod was ruined in the War of Wrath,[9] and around the fortieth year of the Second Age the Dwarves of the Blue Mountains began to migrate to Khazad-dûm, abandoning Nogrod and Belegost.[10] However, there always remained some Dwarves on the eastern side of the Blue Mountains in days afterwards.[7]
Etymology
Nogrod is a Sindarin name; it was originally known as Novrod which means "hollow delving" aka Hollowbold, like its original Khuzdul name Tumunzahar[1] and the Quenya translation Návarot.[11]
Novrod was altered to Naugrod under the influence of the similar-sounding word naug ("dwarf").[12] Therefore while the name Hollowbold is provided as the translation of Nogrod[13] it is not a literal translation; the new name means rather "Dwarf dwelling".[14]
The second element of Novrod/Nogrod is Sindarin groth/grod ("delving, underground dwelling").[12]
In the Noldorin phase of the language, it contains the element naug ("dwarf"). The second element -rod is not explained, but a note by Christopher Tolkien points to entry ROD, an etymological root meaning "cave". Relevant Noldorin words include rhond ("cave") and rhaud ("hollow, cavernous").[15]
Other versions of the legendarium
In the earliest version of the legendarium in The Book of Lost Tales, Nogrod was located "a very long journey southward beyond the wide forest on the borders of those great heaths nigh Umboth-muilin the Pools of Twilight, on the marches of Tasarinan".[16]
In The Lay of the Children of Húrin the Dwarves of Nogrod were traders, bringing wine of Dor-Winion "that is bruised from the berries of the burning South" by long ways to the lands of the North, including Doriath.[17]
On the Eastward Extension of the First 'Silmarillion' Map, the Dwarf-road crosses the Blue Mountains below Mount Dolmed, then turns to the south and continues until the edge of the map with the direction "Southward in East feet of Blue Mountans are Belegost and Nogrod".[18][19][20] In the second version of the Earliest Annals of Beleriand[21] and in the Later Annals of Beleriand,[22] Nogrod was in the east of the Blue Mountains and far south of Beleriand.
The position of Belegost was later moved by J.R.R. Tolkien to the north of Mount Dolmed on a photocopy of the Second 'Silmarillion' Map.[3] This corresponds with its position in the Quenta Silmarillion from 1937,[23] in the revised version of the Later Quenta Silmarillion,[24] and in the Grey Annals.[25]
Although the locations of Nogrod and Mount Dolmed are not indicated on the General Map of Middle-earth and on the map of The West of Middle-earth at the End of the Third Age, Mount Dolmed can be identified as the westernmost mountain in the middle of the part of the Blue Mountains, which is north of the Gulf of Lune by using the position of Mount Dolmed relative to the positions of the Hill of Himring and the highland of Taur-nu-Fuin on the Map of Beleriand and the Lands to the North and determining the position of Nogrod and Mount Dolmed relative to the positions of their respective remains after the War of Wrath, the island of Himling and the island of Tol Fuin,[26] on Christopher Tolkien's original map of The West of Middle-earth at the End of the Third Age.[27][28][29] This location is on a similar latitude as lake Nenuial.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Sindar"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals and Related Writings — Part Two" (edited by Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 48, December 2005, p. 24 ("...which had certainly been founded long ago ... before the coming of the exiled Noldor, probably before the Eldar of the Great Journey ever reached Beleriand")
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Treason of Isengard, "XV. The First Map of The Lord of the Rings", "Maps I and IA", p. 301
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Map of Beleriand and the Lands to the North"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Three. The Wanderings of Húrin and Other Writings not forming part of the Quenta Silmarillion: III. Maeglin", redrawn version of a photocopy of the northeast section of the Second Silmarillion map on which J.R.R. Tolkien added the location of Belegost, p. 331
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals and Related Writings — Part Two" (edited by Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 48, December 2005, p. 24 ("But the Dwarves had built some great Mansions in those mountains [the Ered Luin] (commanding the only passes)")
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", "Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn", p. 235
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Ruin of Doriath"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "Durin's Folk"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Second Age"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Four. Quendi and Eldar: Appendix B. Elvish names for the Dwarves", p. 389
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 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"
- ↑ Robert Foster, The Complete Guide to Middle-earth, entry "Nogrod"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", entries "NAUK", "ROD"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "IV. The Nauglafring", p. 225
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lays of Beleriand, "I. The Lay of the Children of Húrin, Second Version of the Lay: II. Túrin's Fostering"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Shaping of Middle-earth, "Preface", p. v bottom-right corner
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Shaping of Middle-earth, "IV. The First 'Silmarillion' Map: The Eastward Extension", entry, Dwarf-road and Sarn Athra, p. 285
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Two. The Later Quenta Silmarillion: Concerning the Dwarves (Chapter 13)", §124
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Shaping of Middle-earth, "VII. The Earliest Annals of Beleriand: The second version of The Earliest Annals of Beleriand [text AB II]", "the Dwarves dwelt in great mines and cities in the East of Eredlindon and far south of Beleriand, the chief of these were Nogrod and Belegost", p. 399
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Part Two: Valinor and Middle-earth before The Lord of the Rings, III. The Later Annals of Beleriand", entry YS 104 [154], "the Dwarves had great mines and cities in the east of Eredlindon, far south of Beleriand, and the chief of these cities were Nogrod and Belegost" and "the Dwarves trafficked into Beleriand; and they made a great road, which came north, east of the mountains, and thence it passed under the shoulders of Mount Dolm", p. 143
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Part Two: Valinor and Middle-earth before The Lord of the Rings, VI. Quenta Silmarillion", 10. Of Men and Dwarfs, §122, "the Dwarfs [...] for the chief dwellings of that race were then in the mountains east of Thargelion, the land of Cranthir, and were digged deep in the eastern slopes of Eredlindon", p. 299
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Two. The Later Quenta Silmarillion", Of the Naugrim and the Edain, Concerning the Dwarves, §7, "whereas Belegost and Nogrod were upon the east side of Eredlindon and nigh to the lands of the Eldar"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part One. The Grey Annals", entry for the year 1250, §19, "on the east-side of Eryd Luin, north and south of Mount Dolmed, in those places which the Eldar named Belegost and Nogrod"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "Introduction", "The Map of Middle-earth", second paragraph
- ↑ Ronald Kyrmse, "The Location of Mount Dolmed on Maps from the First and Third Ages", July 2020; [1], accessed 21 August 2022
- ↑ Ronald Kyrmse, "The Geographical Relation between Beleriand and Eriador" in Mallorn no. 26, September 1989, pp. 25–7
- ↑ Didier Willis, Bulletin de géographie Hiswelóce, special issue no. 1, Winter 1994 (French); Mystères géographiques n°1 : Mont Dolmed & cités naines (c. 2000), Hiwelokë, accessed March 23rd, 2011 (French); revised and augmented in "Du Beleriand aux confins de Rhûn" in Tolkien, le façonnement d'un monde, vol. 2, 2014, pp. 197-230