Beleriand
Sign in to saveIn J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional legendarium, Beleriand () was a region in northwestern Middle-earth during the First Age. Events in Beleriand are described chiefly in his work The Silmarillion: It tells the story of the early Ages of Middle-earth, in a style similar to that of the epics of Nordic literature—stories pervaded by a tone of impending doom. Beleriand also appears in the works The Book of Lost Tales, The Children of Húrin, and The Lays of Beleriand.
Key facts
- Fictional location.name
- Beleriand
- Fictional location.series
- J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium
- Fictional location.type
- large region
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- Position
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- northwestern Middle-earth
- Fictional location.locations
- Arvernien, Doriath, Falas, Nargothrond, Nevrast, Ossiriand, Taur-im-Duinath
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- Period
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- Start of Years of the Trees to end of First Age
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- Founder
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12 sectionsContents
- Fictional history
- Fictional geography
- Analysis
- Naming
- A sense of doom
- "Lost" poetry
- See also
- References
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In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional legendarium, Beleriand () was a region in northwestern Middle-earth during the First Age. Events in Beleriand are described chiefly in his work The Silmarillion: It tells the story of the early Ages of Middle-earth, in a style similar to that of the epics of Nordic literature—stories pervaded by a tone of impending doom. Beleriand also appears in the works The Book of Lost Tales, The Children of Húrin, and The Lays of Beleriand.
In Tolkien's early writing, he coined many prospective names for the region. Among them were Broceliand, the name of an enchanted forest in medieval romance, and Ingolondë—a play on the name England—when he hoped to root a mythology for England in the region. The scholar Gergely Nagy looked at the prose of the Silmarillion and found what may be evidence of the structure and syntax of Beleriand's poetry.