Inziladûn Elder son of Ar-Gimilzôr and Inzilbêth; afterwards named Tar-Palantir. 332
Inzilbêth Queen of Ar-Gimilzôr; of the house of the lords of Andúnië. 331
Irmo The Vala usually named Lórien, the place of his dwelling. Irmo means 'Desirer' or 'Master of Desire'. 21, 24, 68
Iron Mountains See Ered Engrin.
Isengard Translation (to represent the language of Rohan) of the Elvish name Angrenost. 361, 373-7
Isil Quenya name of the Moon. 114-5
Isildur Elder son of Elendil, who with his father and his brother Anárion escaped from the Drowning of Númenor and founded in Middle-earth the Númenórean realms in exile; lord of Minas Ithil; cut the Ruling Ring from Sauron's hand; slain by Orcs in the Anduin when the Ring slipped from his finger. 337, 342, 346, 360-8, 374. Heirs of Isildur 369, 373. Heir of Isildur=Aragorn 377
Istari The Wizards. See Curunír, Saruman; Mithrandir, Gandalf, Olórin; Radagast. 372
Ivrin The lake and falls beneath Ered Wethrin where the river Narog rose. 140, 257. Pools of Ivrin 132, 257, 264, 296. Falls of Ivrin 142, 206. See Eithel Ivrin.
kelvar An Elvish word retained in the speeches of Yavanna and Manwë in Chapter II: 'animals, living things that move'. 43-4
Kementári 'Queen of the Earth', a title of Yavanna. 21, 33-5, 44
Khazâd The name of the Dwarves in their own language (Khuzdul). 103
Khazad-dûm The great mansions of the Dwarves of Durin's race in the Misty Mountains (Hadhodrond, Moria). See Khazâd; dûm is probably a plural or collective, meaning 'excavations, halls, mansions'. 42, 104, 354
Khîm Son of Mîm the Petty-dwarf, slam by one of Túrin's outlaw band. 249
King's Men Númenóreans hostile to the Eldar and the Elendili. 328-9, 332
Kinslaying, The The slaying of the Teleri by the Noldor at Alqualondë. 98, 100-1, 120, 130, 152, 154, 166, 169, 188
Ladros The lands to the northeast of Dorthonion that were granted by the Noldorin Kings to the Men of the House of Bëor. 177
Laer Cú Beleg 'The Song of the Great Bow', made by Túrin at Eithel Ivrin in memory of Beleg Cúthalion. 256
Laiquendi 'The Green-elves' of Ossiriand. 110
Lalaith 'Laughter', daughter of Húrin and Morwen who died in childhood. 242
Lammoth 'The Great Echo', region north of the Firth of Drengist, named from the echoes of Morgoth's cry in his struggle with Ungoliant. 89-90, 123
Land of Shadow See Mordor.
Land of the Dead that Live See Dor Firn-i-Guinar.
Land of the Star Númenor. 339, 341
Lanthir Lamath 'Waterfall of Echoing Voices', where Dior had his house in Ossiriand, and after which his daughter Elwing ('Star-spray') was named. 289
Last Alliance The league made at the end of the Second Age between Elendil and Gil-galad to defeat Sauron. 364
Laurelin 'Song of Gold', the younger of the Two Trees of Valinor. 34, 64, 82, 114-6, 151
Lay of Leithian The long poem concerning the lives of Beren and Lúthien from which the prose account in The Silmarillion was derived. Leithian is translated 'Release from Bondage'. 195, 198, 203, 206-8, 226
Legolin The third of the tributaries of Gelion in Ossiriand. 147
lembas Sindarin name of the waybread of the Eldar (from earlier lennmbass 'journey-bread'; in Quenya coimas 'life-bread'). 247, 251, 256
Lenwë The leader of the Elves from the host of the Teleri who refused to cross the Misty Mountains on the west-ward journey from Cuiviénen (the Nandor); father of Denethor. 56, 108
Lhûn River in Eriador flowing into the sea in the Gulf of Lhûn.354, 360
Linaewen 'Lake of birds', the great mere in Nevrast. 141
Lindon A name of Ossiriand in the First Age; see 147. After the tumults at the end of the First Age the name Lindon was retained for the lands west of the Blue Mountains that still remained above the Sea: 354, 355, 359, 370
Lindórië Mother of Inzilbêth. 331
Little Gelion One of the two tributary branches of the river Gelion in the north, rising in the Hill of Himring. 146
Loeg Ningloron 'Pools of the golden water-flowers'; see Gladden Fields.
lómelindi Quenya word meaning 'dusk-singers', nightingales. 57
Lómion 'Son of Twilight', the Quenya name that Aredhel gave to Maeglin. 159
Lonely Isle See Tol Eressëa.
Lord of Waters See Ulmo.
Lords of the West See Valar.
Lorellin The lake in Lórien in Valinor where the Vala Estë sleeps by day. 21
Lorgan Chief of the Easterling Men in Hithlum after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, by whom Tuor was enslaved. 294
