southern forest of Doriath.
Rían Cousin of Morwen; wife of Huor Húrin’s brother; mother of Tuor.
Rivil* Stream falling from Dorthonion to join Sirion in the Fen of Serech.
Sador Woodwright, serving-man of Húrin’s in Dor-lómin and friend of Túrin in his childhood, by whom he was called Labadal.
Saeros Elf of Doriath, a counsellor of Thingol, hostile to Túrin.
Sauron’s Isle Tol Sirion.
Serech* The great fen north of the Pass of Sirion, where the river Rivil flowed in from Dorthonion.
Shadowy Mountains See Ered Wethrin.
Sharbhund Dwarvish name of Amon R?dh.
Sindarin Grey-elven, the Elvish tongue of Beleriand. See Grey-elves.
Sirion* The great river of Beleriand, rising at Eithel Sirion.
Sons of F?anor See F?anor. The seven sons held lands in East Beleriand.
South Road* The ancient road from Tol Sirion to Nargothrond by the Crossings of Teiglin.
Spyhill, The See Amon Ethir.
Strawheads Name given to the People of Hador by the Easterlings in Hithlum.
Strongbow Name of Beleg; see Cúthalion.
Talath Dirnen* ‘The Guarded Plain’, north of Nargothrond.
Taur-nu-Fuin* ‘Forest under Night’, later name of Dorthonion.
Teiglin* A tributary of Sirion rising in the Shadowy Mountains and flowing through the Forest of Brethil. See Crossings of Teiglin.
Telchar Renowned smith of Nogrod.
Telperion The White Tree, elder of the Two Trees that gave light to Valinor.
Thangorodrim ‘Mountains of Tyranny’, reared by Morgoth over Angband.
Thingol ‘Greycloak’, King of Doriath, overlord of the Grey-elves (Sindar); wedded to Melian the Maia; father of Lúthien.
Thorondor ‘King of Eagles’ (cf. The Return of the King VI.4: ‘old Thorondor, who built his eyries in the inaccessible peaks of the Encircling Mountains when Middle-earth was young’).
Three Houses (of the Edain) The Houses of B?or, Haleth, and Hador.
Thurin ‘The Secret’, name given to Túrin by Finduilas.
Tol Sirion* Island in the river in the Pass of Sirion on which Finrod built the tower of Minas Tirith; afterwards taken by Sauron.
Tumhalad* Valley in West Beleriand between the rivers Ginglith and Narog where the host of Nargothrond was defeated.
Tumladen The hidden vale in the Encircling Mountains where the city of Gondolin stood.
Tuor Son of Huor and Rían; cousin of Túrin and father of E?rendil.
Turambar ‘Master of Doom’, name taken by Túrin among the Men of Brethil.
Turgon Second son of King Fingolfin and brother of Fingon; founder and king of Gondolin.
Túrin Son of Húrin and Morwen, chief subject of the lay named Narn i Ch?n Húrin. For his other names see Neithan, Gorthol, Agarwaen, Thurin, Adanedhel, Mormegil (Black Sword), Wild Man of the Woods, Turambar.
Twilit Meres* Region of marshes and pools where the Aros flowed into Sirion.
Uldor the Accursed A leader of the Easterlings who was slain in the Battle of Unnumbered Tears.
Ulmo One of the great Valar, ‘Lord of Waters’.
Ulrad A member of the outlaw band that Túrin joined.
úmarth ‘Ill-fate’, a fictitious name for his father given out by Túrin in Nargothrond.
Unnumbered Tears The battle of Nirnaeth Arnoediad.
Urwen Daughter of Húrin and Morwen who died in childhood; called Lalaith ‘Laughter’.
Valar ‘The Powers’, those great spirits that entered the World at the beginning of time.
Valinor The land of the Valar in the West, beyond the Great Sea.
Varda The greatest of the Queens of the Valar, the spouse of Manw?.
Wildman of the Woods Name taken by Túrin when he first came among the Men of Brethil.
Wolf-men See Gaurwaith.
Woodmen Dwellers in the woods south of Teiglin, plundered by the Gaurwaith.
Year of Lamentation The year of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.
Younger Children Men. See Children of Ilúvatar.
NOTE ON THE MAP
This map is closely based on that in the published Silmarillion, which was itself derived from the map that my father made in the 1930s, and which he never replaced, but used for all his subsequent work. The formalised, and obviously very selective, representations of mountains, hills and forests are imitated from his style.
In this redrawing I have introduced certain differences, intended to simplify it and to make it more expressly applicable to the tale of The Children of Húrin. Thus it does not extend eastward to include Ossiriand and the Blue Mountains, and certain geographical features are omitted; while (with a few exceptions) only names that actually occur in the text of the tale are marked.