Gwaith i Innas Lain: Quenta Ando Rauco Glossary
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