Things of Middle-earth
The last ten updated things
- Roads go ever ever on
- Updated: 02/01/12
Type: Songs & Stories - A Hobbit walking-song, possibly written by Bilbo Baggins. See also The Road goes ever on and on:As all things come to an end, even this story, a day came at last when they were in sight of the country where Bilbo had been born and bred, where the shapes of the land and of the trees were as well know...
- The Road goes ever on and on
- Updated: 02/01/12
Type: Songs & Stories - A hobbit walking song, possibly written by Bilbo Baggins, with several variations. Also see Roads go ever ever on:The original version is sung by Bilbo as he is leaving the Shire following his Farewell Party:'[The] time has come. I am being swept off my feet at last,' he added, and then in a low voi...
- Valacirca
- Updated: 01/26/12
Type: Miscellaneous - Valacirca is the Quenya name for the circumpolar cluster of seven bright stars called in real life the Plough or the Big Dipper, part of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear; in the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, where Middle-earth supposedly lies, the constellation is visible ...
- Three Elven Rings of Power
- Updated: 01/26/12
Type: Artifacts - The three Rings of Power made by Celebrimbor and borne by Elves:Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky.... From Three Rings for the Elven-kings The Fellowship of the Ring, LoTR Book 1, Ch 2, The Shadow of the Past[The] Seven and the Nine were made with Sauron's aid, whereas the Three were...
- Dagor Dagorath
- Updated: 01/24/12
Type: Songs & Stories - The Last Battle with Melkor (Morgoth) that is said will occur at the end of Arda, after which it will be remade:Manwë will not descend from the Mountain until Dagor Dagorath, and the coming of the End, when Melkor returns. 1 Unfinished Tales, Part 4, Ch 2, The IstariThen shall the last battl...
- Anor, the Sun
- Updated: 01/21/12
Type: Miscellaneous - The last fruit of Laurelin, taken after the destruction of the Two Trees, hallowed by the Valar and placed into the sky by Varda:Manwë bade Yavanna and Nienna to put forth all their powers of growth and healing; and they put forth all their powers upon the Trees. But the tears of Nienna availed not ...
- Ithil, the Moon
- Updated: 01/21/12
Type: Miscellaneous - The last fruit of Telperion, taken after the destruction of the Two Trees, hallowed by the Valar and placed into the sky by Varda:Manwë bade Yavanna and Nienna to put forth all their powers of growth and healing; and they put forth all their powers upon the Trees. But the tears of Nienna availed not...
- mithril
- Updated: 01/20/12
Type: Gems & Jewelry - A white metal similar to platinum, considered extremely precious due to its scarcity:'Then what do the dwarves want to come back [to Moria] for?' asked Sam. 'For mithril,' answered Gandalf. 'The wealth of Moria was not in gold and jewels, the toys of the Dwarves; nor in iron, their servant. Such ...
- Cold be hand and heart and bone
- Updated: 01/19/12
Type: Songs & Stories - The chant heard by Frodo when the hobbits are captured by a Barrow-wight:Suddenly a song began: a cold murmur, rising and falling. The voice seemed far away and immeasurably dreary, sometimes high in the air and thin, sometimes like a low moan from the ground. Out of the formless stream of sad but h...
- Black Breath (Nazgûl Weapon)
- Updated: 01/18/12
Type: Weapons - A name for the overwhelming terror caused by the Nazgûl, sometimes associated with breathing or hissing on their victims, sometimes with their fell voices. A heavy exposure can cause the potentially fatal illness known as the Black Shadow:[The Ringwraiths'] chief weapon was terror. This was actually...
