- "Yonder are the Thrihyrne peaks like black spears. It will not be long before we reach the branching roads to the Deeping-coomb, where the battle was fought two nights ago."
- —The Two Towers, "The Palantir"
The Thrihyrne was a mountain with three tall[1] peaks located on the northward arm of the White Mountains[1] casting a shadow[1] over the glen of Helm's Deep in the Westfold Vale of western Rohan.[2]
The three peaks had steep faces that looked like jagged horns and shut out light. They were haunted by Crows which dwelled there.[1]
They marked the southern edge of the wide Gap of Rohan. Gandalf showed these mountains to Pippin while they escaped the eyes of a Nazgûl on Shadowfax, returning from Isengard.[3]
Etymology[]
Thrihyrne is a variation of ðri-hyrne, a name in Old English meaning "three-cornered, triangular", consisting of the words ðrie ("three") and hyrne ("horn, corner, angle").[4]
In other versions[]
In earlier drafts, the Thrihyrne was originally called Tindtorras.[5][6][7]
Translations[]
| Foreign Language | Translated name |
| Danish | Trihyrnes Tinder |
| Finnish | Kolmisarvi |
| Georgian | თრიჰირნ |
| Hebrew | תריהירן |
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers, Book Three, Ch. XI: "Helm's Deep", pgs. 132-33
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, "Unfinished index to The Lord of the Rings", pg. 412
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers, Book Three, Ch. XI: "The Palantír", pg. 202
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, pg. 412
- ↑ The History of Middle-earth, Vol. VII: The Treason of Isengard, XV: "The First Map of The Lord of the Rings", "The redrawn maps in this book: Maps IV (D) and IV (E)", pg. 320 (O10)
- ↑ The History of Middle-earth, Vol. VIII: The War of the Ring, Part One: "The Fall of Saruman", II: "Helm's Deep", pgs. 8-10, 12, 22 (note 2)
- ↑ The History of Middle-earth, Vol. VIII: The War of the Ring, Part Two: "The Ring Goes East", I: "The Taming of Sméagol", pg. 95