![]() The first part of the name apparently derives from Quenya lis 'honey', being a reference to the tree's odour.Ī huge Elven tree that grew in Tol Eressëa, Númenor and in Lothlórien. Lissuin Ī sweet-smelling flower from Tol Eressëa, "whose fragrance brings heart's ease." Some of these were brought by the Elves to Númenor for the adornment of a feast following Aldarion and Erendis's wedding. The casket in which the Crown of Gondor was kept after the death of Eärnur and before the coming of Elessar was made of lebethron, as well as the walking-staves presented by Faramir to Frodo and Sam in Ithilien. Lebethron Ī species of tree that grew in Gondor. The name is derived from Quenya laurë 'golden'. Laurinquë Ī tree with "long-hanging clusters of yellow flowers" that grew in the province of Hyarrostar in Númenor, where it was brought from Tol Eressëa by the Elves. The name can be translated from Quenya as 'summer white-blossom'. On Frodo Baggins's suggestion, Samwise Gamgee named his daughter, Elanor the Fair, after this flower.Īn evergreen and fragrant tree that grew in the province of Nísimaldar in Númenor, where it was brought from Tol Eressëa by the Elves. It grew abundantly on the Cerin Amroth mound in Lothlórien together with niphredil, and also in Tol Eressëa. ![]() Elanor Ī small star-shaped yellow flower, whose name means 'sun-star' in Sindarin. ĭavid Day in his A Tolkien Bestiary conjectured that the elves found culumalda reminiscent of the Laurelin, and that it was thin and tall. ![]() Tolkien himself in published writings, it only appears in Christopher Tolkien's Appendix to the published Silmarillion. The name translates from Quenya as 'golden-red tree', referring to the colour of the tree's foliage. Culumalda Ī tree that grew at the Field of Cormallen in North Ithilien of Gondor. It is also the name of a band based in York County, Pennsylvania. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea, as one of the herbs in the witch of Gont's hut. This contradicts the statements in The Lord of the Rings of athelas being brought to Middle-earth by the Númenóreans, so either the conception was changed by Tolkien in later versions of his legendarium, or the herb grew in Beleriand before it was destroyed, and then was brought back by Númenóreans in the Second Age. This time he secretly entered Minas Tirith upon his return to Gondor to heal those touched by the Black Breath, namely Éowyn, Faramir and Merry, an act that enhanced his reputation and strengthened his claim to the crown.Īthelas was also used by Huan and Lúthien to heal wounded Beren early in the Lay of Leithian (compended in The Silmarillion). Athelas was used by Aragorn three times in the narrative: first, to heal the wound of Frodo Baggins done by the Witch-king with a Morgul-blade, secondly after the Fellowship's escape from Moria, where the wounds of Sam and Frodo are tended and lastly after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. ![]() In the folklore of Gondor, it was especially powerful in the hands of the King, perhaps because of the Elvish heritage of the royal House of Elendil. Athelas Ī healing herb, called asëa aranion in Quenya and athelas in Sindarin, translated to English as kingsfoil.Īccording to The Lord of the Rings, it was first brought to Middle-earth by Númenóreans, but by the end of the Third Age the knowledge of its healing properties was lost among all but the Rangers of the North. Christopher Tolkien surmised that in the second case the flower should be equated with the simbelmynë, which was also white-coloured and never-fading, and that in Legolas's song the reference is to a different plant. of mallos and alfirin" that grew in the land of Lebennin in Gondor while in the story of Cirion and Eorl it is stated that "the white flowers of alfirin" bloomed upon the mound of Elendil on Amon Anwar. In The Lord of the Rings, Legolas sang about "the golden bells. The name alfirin, apparently meaning 'immortal' in Sindarin, was used by Tolkien twice. The name, shared by the spear of Gil-galad, means 'snow-thorn' in Sindarin. Christopher Tolkien stated that aeglos was "like furze (gorse), but larger, and with white flowers" he also compared it with the yellow-flowered gorse bushes said in The Lord of the Rings to have grown in Ithilien. Species Aeglos Ī kind of shrub that grew around the hill of Amon Rûdh in Beleriand, described in the Narn i Chîn Húrin as "long-legged", sweet-smelling and creating gloomy "aisles" beneath the roof of branches. In Quenya, an Elven tongue devised by Tolkien, the general term for plants as distinct from animals was olvar. Under the Species heading, only those that differ from real-world plants are included. This is a list of all fictional plants that appear in J.
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