The Encyclopedia of Arda - Arvernien (original) (raw)

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Dates Destroyed at the end of the First Age Location North of the Bay of Balar, between Cape Balar and the Mouths of Sirion Settlements The Mouths of Sirion Pronunciation arve'rnien Meaning Uncertain1 Indexes: Alphabetical: A Lands, Realms and Regions About this entry: Updated 21 February 2020 This entry is complete The coastlands north of the Bay of Balar Years of the Trees First Age I Second Age II Third Age III Fourth Age IV "Eärendil was a marinerthat tarried in Arvernien..." The first lines of Bilbo's "Song of Eärendil"The Fellowship of the Ring II 1_Many Meetings_ The northern coastlands of the Bay of Balar, lying between Cape Balar to the west and the Mouths of Sirion to the east. The inland part of this region was famed for the white birchwoods of Nimbrethil. Arvernien was the most southerly habitable part of the mainland of Beleriand, and thus the furthest from Morgoth's influence. This became important late in the First Age, when refugees from Doriath and Gondolin gathered there, especially in the east at the Mouths of Sirion. Eärendil became the lord of these people, and it was from the birchwoods of Arvernien that he gathered the timbers to make his ship Vingilot. Notes 1 The -vernien element of this land's name is almost certainly a reference to the forests it contained (though The Etymologies in volume V of The History of Middle-earth translates ferni as 'beeches', the Elves seem to have also used the word for the closely related birch tree). So, -vernien can be read as '(land) of birches', which is surely a reference to the birchwoods of Nimbrethil. The ar- element is less certain: it may imply that the birches of this region were particularly magnificent, or it may imply 'outside' (so Arvernien would be the 'land outside Nimbrethil'). See also... Bay of Balar, Cape Balar, Isle of Balar, Nimbrethil Indexes: Alphabetical: A Lands, Realms and Regions About this entry: Updated 21 February 2020 This entry is complete For acknowledgements and references, see the Disclaimer & Bibliography page. Original content © copyright Mark Fisher 1998, 2001, 2007-2008, 2020. All rights reserved. For conditions of reuse, see the Site FAQ. Website services kindly sponsored by Discus from Axiom Software Ltd.Discus Invitations make it easy to run DISC personality profiling across the Web, with results available instantly.

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Dates Destroyed at the end of the First Age Location North of the Bay of Balar, between Cape Balar and the Mouths of Sirion Settlements The Mouths of Sirion Pronunciation arve'rnien Meaning Uncertain1 Indexes: Alphabetical: A Lands, Realms and Regions About this entry: Updated 21 February 2020 This entry is complete The coastlands north of the Bay of Balar

Years of the Trees First Age I Second Age II Third Age III Fourth Age IV Map of Arvernien

"Eärendil was a marinerthat tarried in Arvernien..." The first lines of Bilbo's "Song of Eärendil"The Fellowship of the Ring II 1_Many Meetings_ The northern coastlands of the Bay of Balar, lying between Cape Balar to the west and the Mouths of Sirion to the east. The inland part of this region was famed for the white birchwoods of Nimbrethil. Arvernien was the most southerly habitable part of the mainland of Beleriand, and thus the furthest from Morgoth's influence. This became important late in the First Age, when refugees from Doriath and Gondolin gathered there, especially in the east at the Mouths of Sirion. Eärendil became the lord of these people, and it was from the birchwoods of Arvernien that he gathered the timbers to make his ship Vingilot. Notes 1 The -vernien element of this land's name is almost certainly a reference to the forests it contained (though The Etymologies in volume V of The History of Middle-earth translates ferni as 'beeches', the Elves seem to have also used the word for the closely related birch tree). So, -vernien can be read as '(land) of birches', which is surely a reference to the birchwoods of Nimbrethil. The ar- element is less certain: it may imply that the birches of this region were particularly magnificent, or it may imply 'outside' (so Arvernien would be the 'land outside Nimbrethil'). See also... Bay of Balar, Cape Balar, Isle of Balar, Nimbrethil Indexes: Alphabetical: A Lands, Realms and Regions About this entry: Updated 21 February 2020 This entry is complete For acknowledgements and references, see the Disclaimer & Bibliography page. Original content © copyright Mark Fisher 1998, 2001, 2007-2008, 2020. All rights reserved. For conditions of reuse, see the Site FAQ. Website services kindly sponsored by Discus from Axiom Software Ltd.Discus Invitations make it easy to run DISC personality profiling across the Web, with results available instantly.