ABC of Middle-earth...

[Grimward]

Water, The

Small river that ran at the foot of Hill, The in Hobbiton.

[Teresa Edgerton]

Morgoth's Ring, Volume X of The History of Middle Earth.


Why is it that I always seem to end up with X?

[pyan]

That's the way the lembas crumbles, I'm afraid...

Years of the Trees

The ten millennia that lay between the founding of Valinor and the destruction of Telperion and Laurelin by Melkor and Ungoliant.

[Grimward]

While listed previously as an option by Mr. Pyan, he was actually responding to an 'A', so I will use

Zamîn

Old country woman of Númenor, somewhat of a servant to Ancalimë in her youth.

[Teresa Edgerton]

Argonath

giant statues of Isildur and Anárion, carved into cliffs to either side of the river Anduin, marking the northern border of Gondor.

[Grimward]

Burrahobbit

A rare troll delicacy, inevitably chased with a dozen roast dwarves....

[pyan]

Cabed-en-Aras

The Deer's Leap, a narrowing of the Ravines of Teiglin, in the west of Doriath.
Famous for being the spot where Glaurung, the First of the Wyrms, was killed by Túrin .

[Teresa Edgerton]

Dagorlad,

"battle plain" where the Last Alliance of Elves and Men overthrew Sauron's army.

[Grimward]

Edge of the Wild

A place where even the plans of wise wizards and council of good friends can go astray.....

[Lady of Winterfell]

Fall of Fingolfin

Fingolfin's end after challenging Morgoth in single combat.

[Teresa Edgerton]

Gorgoroth

A barren plateau in Mordor, from which rises Mount Doom.

[Clansman]

Haldir of Lorien, marchwarden of the northern borders of that Sindarin/Noldorin principality.

And no, he was never at the Battle of Helm's Deep, and didn't die at the Hornburg.