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by Beren, who with its aid was able to cut a Silmaril from Morgoth’s Iron Crown.
    Angrod ‘Iron-champion’ (Sind. from Q. Angarato ) – The brother of AEGNOR .
    Anguirel – See ANGLACHEL .

    Anna – The Quenya word for ‘gift’; also the title of Tengwa number 23, used as consonantal y in those languages which required it.
    Annael – A Sindarin Elf who fostered the man-child Tuor son of Huor in his secret dwelling in the Androth, the caves of Mithrim. Of all his people, he alone had returned from the Nirnaeth.
    Annatar ‘Lord-of-gifts’ (Q.) – A benevolent title assumed by Sauron the Great at the beginning of the Second Age, in furtherance of his then policies of apparent friendliness towards the Eldar.
    Annon-in-Gelydh ‘Gate-of-the-Noldor’ (Sind.) – The concealed entrance to Nevrast: a tunnel through the eastern wall of the Echoing Mountains on the borders of Dor-lómin, built by Turgon’s people when they still dwelled in Nevrast.
    Ann-thannath – A mode of verse and song used by the Elves of Beleriand, difficult to render into Common Speech (Westron) because of its Elvish patterns of thought and inspiration. The Lay of Leithian was originally composed in this mode.
    Annúminas ‘Tower-of-the-Sunset’ (Sind.) – The first and only capital of Arnor, a fair city on the banks of Lake Evendim (Nenuial), built by Elendil after the fall of Númenor. Annúminas did not long survive the division of Arnor (861 Third Age), and was allowed to fall into ruin after the Heirs of Elendil removed to Fornost Erain, which then became the capital of Arthedain. The chief palantír of the North was kept there.
    Anod – See ENTS .
    Anor – Sindarin form of the Quenya word ANAR (the Sun).
    Anórien ‘Sun-land’ (Sind.) – One of the two oldest provinces of Gondor. It contained most of the realm west of the Anduin and east of the White Mountains. Its chief city was Minas Anor, later renamed Minas Tirith.

    Anto – The Quenya word for ‘mouth’; also the title of Tengwa number 13, used for nt sounds and (in Sindarin and Mannish) for dh.
    Anwar – See AMON ANWAR
    Apanómar ‘After-born’ (Q.) – An early Elvish term for the race of Men.
    Appledore – A common Bree name.
    Ar(a) – A royal prefix to the names of those later Kings of Númenor who took their ceremonial titles in ADÛNAIC , discarding the Eldarin prefix Tar -. Ar - meant ‘ruler, king’ in early Mannish tongues, themselves partially derived from ‘proto-Quenya’; and, as an acknowledgement of their Númenorean (and Eldarin) ancestry, all Kings and Chieftains of the Dúnedain of the North (beginning with Argeleb I) also adopted this prefix in their names (e.g. Aragorn, Araphant, Arassuil).
    Aradan ‘Royal-man’ (Sind.) – See MALACH ARADAN .
    Arador – From 2912–30 Third Age, the fourteenth Chieftain of the Dúnedain of the North, and grandfather of Aragorn. He was captured and put to death by hill-trolls.
    Araglas – From 2327–2455 Third Age, the sixth Chieftain of the Dúnedain.
    Aragorn I – From 2319–27 Third Age, the fifth Chieftain of the Dúnedain, slain by wolves.
    Aragorn II – Born in Rivendell (2931 Third Age), the only son of Gilraen the Fair and Arathorn II, fifteenth Chieftain of the Dúnedain of Arnor. When his father died in battle only two years after Aragorn’s birth, the boy in his turn became Chieftain. His mother then took him to safety in Rivendell, where the young Dúnadan was fostered by Elrond himself. There he bore the name Estel (‘Hope’) to conceal his true lineage from the emissaries of Sauron who were scouring the North for the last Heir of Isildur. On his twentieth birthday, Elrond revealed his true name and ancestry, and the ancient hopes of his House, and he gave to Aragorn the heirlooms of his Line: the Ring of