Glanhír

The Glanhír in The Lord of the Rings Online
Glanhír
Location	Flowing northeastwards out of the White Mountains, forming the border between Gondor and Rohan
Type	stream
Other names	Boundary-stream, Mering Stream
Description	East flowing stream, tributary of the Entwash

The Glanhír, also called the Boundary-stream and the Mering Stream, was a river that marked the border between the kingdoms of Rohan and Gondor. Gondor's province of Anórien lay on the eastern side of the Glanhír, while the Eastfold region of Rohan lay on the western side.

The Glanhír rose from a cleft in a northward spur of the White Mountains before flowing through the Firien Wood, which grew about the Beacon-hill Halifirien, and then northward to the plains, joining with the Entwash and forming impassable marshes.

History

Before the establishment of the kingdom of Rohan, the line of the Glanhír was fortified. On its between the impassable marshes where it flowed into the Entwash and the bridge where the Great West Road ran in a westward direction out of the Firienholt.

In later times, the Glanhír formed the border between Gondor and Rohan, together with the White Mountains and the Mouths of Entwash in the Entwash Vale.

On March 8th of the year 3019 Gandalf and Pippin crossed the Glanhír during their ride from Rohan to Minas Tirith during the War of the Ring.

On March 11th of the year 3019 the riders of Rohan led by their King Théoden travelled with Meriadoc Brandybuck across the Glanhír through the Eastfold on their way to Minas Tirith.

In early August of the year 3019 the funeral escort of King Théoden passed across the Glanhír through the Eastfold on its way to Edoras.

Etymology

Glanhír is a Sindarin name meaning "Boundary-stream", "Mering Stream", or "boundary stream". It is possible that the name is derived from the elements glan(n) ("boundary") and a lenited variant of sîr ("river, stream").

Mering in "Mering Stream" is an Old English variant of māere or mēre ("boundary”).

In other versions

The name Firienlode appears in the first version of the unnamed poem whose first line is "from dark Dunharrow in the dim morning". The name contains the Sindarin word firion, made up of feir ("mortal") and -on ("ending in male names, masculine singular ending"), and the Westron word lode ("course, water-channel"). It was suggested by Christopher Tolkien that this name probably referred to the Glanhír.

In adaptations

In The Lord of the Rings Online, the Mering Stream is only accessible from the Rohan side, as the Gondorian side is blocked by impassable cliffs and reeds. The only way to cross the river is through a guarded ford, which also transitions the player between the Rhovanion to the Gondor in-game landmasses, a transition very noticeable because all of Gondor is covered under the Dawnless Day at that time, regardless of the daylight conditions on the Rohan side. A Rohirrim town of "Beaconwatch" sits on the bank of the river, with a clear view across into the Firien Wood and Halifirien.

Translations

Foreign Language	Translated name
Afrikaans	Mering Stroom
Albanian	Mering Lumë
Amharic	መሪንግ ዥረት
Arabic	ميرينغ ستريم
Armenian	Մերինգ հոսանք
Azerbaijani	Mering Axın
Basque	Mering Erreka
Belarusian Cyrillic	Мерынг паток
Bengali	মেরিঙ প্রবাহ
Bosnian	Mering Tok
Bulgarian Cyrillic	Меринг поток
Catalan	Corrent Mering
Cebuano	Mering Sapa
Chinese (Hong Kong)	摩林溪
Cornish	Mering Gover
Croatian	Mering Potok
Czech	Mering Proud
Danish	Mering Å
Dutch	Mering Stroom
Esperanto	Mering Rivereto
Estonian	Mering Oja
Filipino	Mering Batis
Finnish	Mering puro
French	Flux de Mering
Galician	Fluxo de Mering
Georgian	მერინგ ნაკადი
German	Mering Strom
Greek	Μερινγ ρεύμα
Gujarati	મેરિઙ પ્રવાહ
Haitian Creole	Mering Kouran
Hausa	Mering Rafi
Hawaiian	Mering kahawai o
Hebrew	נחל מרינג
Hindi	मेरिंग स्ट्रीम
Hmong	Mering Kwj
Hungarian	Határ-folyam
Icelandic	Mering Straum
Indonesian	Mering Aliran
Irish Gaelic	Mering Sruth
Italian	Rivo di Confine
Japanese	メリング川
Kannada	ಮೆರಿಂಗ್ ಸ್ಟ್ರೀಮ್
Kazakh	Мерінг ағыны (Cyrillic) Mering ağını (Latin)
Korean	메 링 스트림
Kurdish	Mering Herrok (Kurmanji Kurdish)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic	Мэринг агымы
Japanese	メリング川
Latin	Mering Torrens
Latvian	Mering Straume
Lithuanian	Meringa Srautas
Luxembourgish	Mering Baach
Malagasy	Mering Renirano
Malaysian	Mering Aliran
Malayalam	മ്മെരിങ് സ്ട്രീം
Maltese	Nixxiegħa Mering
Maori	Mering Awa
Marathi	मेरिङ्ग प्रवाह
Mongolian Cyrillic	Меринг урсгал
Nepalese	मेरिङ स्ट्रिम
Norwegian	Mering Strøm
Persian	مهرینگ جریان
Polish	Mering Strumienia
Portuguese	Fluxo de Mering
Punjabi	ਮ੍ਰਿਨ੍ਗ ਸਟਰੀਮ
Romanian	Mering Curent
Russian	Меринг поток
Samoan	Mering Tafe
Scottish Gaelic	Mering Sruth
Shona	Mering Chikova
Slovak	Mering Prúd
Slovenian	Mering Tok
Sundanese	Mering walungan leutik
Swahili	Mering Mkondo
Swedish	Mering Ström
Tajik Cyrillic	Меринг Маҷрои
Telugu	మేరింగ్ స్ట్రీమ్
Turkish	Mering Çayı
Ukrainian Cyrillic	Меринг потік
Urdu	مارانگ اسٹریم
Uzbek	Меринг оқим (Cyrillic) Mering oqim (Latin)
Vietnamese	Mering Dòng
Welsh	Mering Ffrwd
Yiddish	מערינג סטרים
Yucatec Maya	Sáasilo' u Mering