Ard-galen, later known as Anfauglith or Dor-nu-Fauglith, was the wide green plain that lay north of the highlands of Dorthonion and south of Morgoth's fortress of Angband in the Iron Mountains, in the First Age. It was eventually desolated by Morgoth and absorbed into his dark realm known as Dor-na-Daerachas; this event led to its renaming to Angfaulith, or "Gasping Dust".[1]
History[]
In the first days after the rising of the Sun, Ard-galen was a green plain with rich grass, reaching from Hithlum and the Ered Wethrin in the west to the Blue Mountains in the east, and rising into the highlands of Dorthonion in the south. However, the plain was laid waste by poisonous gases and rivers of flame from Thangorodrim during the Dagor Bragollach, and it was renamed.
The battle of Nírnaeth Arnoediad was fought on the plain, and the dead piled up in a hill in the midst of it, named Haudh-en-Ndengin, the Hill of Slain, by the Elves, and Haudh-en-Nirnaeth, the Hill of Tears, and grass grew again upon the hill and nowhere else in Anfauglith.[2]
Like the other lands around it, Anfauglith sank beneath the waves after the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age.
Etymology[]
Ard-galen is a Sindarin word meaning 'Green Region'. Anfauglith and Dor-nu-Fauglith are translated in the text as 'Gasping Dust' and 'Land under Choking Ash,' respectively.[3]
Translations[]
| Foreign Language | Translated name |
| Amharic | አርድ-ጋሌን |
| Arabic | ارض-جالن |
| Armenian | Արդ-գալեն |
| Belarusian Cyrillic | Ард-гален |
| Bengali | অর্দ-গ্যালেন |
| Bulgarian Cyrillic | Ард-гален (Ard-galen)
Анфауглит (Anfauglith) |
| Chinese (Hong Kong) | 阿德加藍草原 |
| Danish | Ard-galen ("Den Grønne Egn") |
| Georgian | არდ-გალენი |
| Greek | Αρντ-Γκάλεν |
| Gujarati | અર્ડે-ગેલેન |
| Hebrew | ארד־גאלן (Ard-galen)
אנפאוגלית (Anfauglith) |
| Hindi | अर्द-गलेन |
| Japanese | アルド＝ガレン (Ard-galen)
アンファウグリス (Anfauglith) |
| Kannada | ಆರ್ದ್-ಗ್ಯಾಲೆನ್ |
| Korean | 아르 드 - 갈렌 |
| Macedonian Cyrillic | Ард-Гален |
| Marathi | अर्ड-गॅलन |
| Nepalese | अर्ड-ग्लेन |
| Punjabi | ਅਰਡ-ਗਲੈਨ |
| Russian | Ард-гален (Ard-galen)
Анфауглиф (Anfauglith) |
| Serbian | Ард-гален (Cyrillic) Ard-galen (Latin)
Анфауглитом (Cyrillic) Anfauglitom (Latin) |
| Sinhalese | ආර්ඩ්-ගැල්න් |
| Tamil | அர்ட்-கேலன் |
| Telugu | ఆర్ద-గాలెన్ |
| Thai | อาร์ด-กาเลน |
| Urdu | آرڈ گیلین |
| Yiddish | ײַרד-גאַלענ |
References[]
- ↑ The Atlas of Middle-earth, The First Age, The Elder Days, "Beleriand and the Lands to the North"
- ↑ The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter XVIII: "Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin"
- ↑ The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Appendix: Index of Names