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The Elvish name for the twilight of dusk (the dim light of evening). The twilight of dawn they named minuial.


* Ad√naic|Adunaic
'(Language of the) West'. The native tongue of the N·menєreans, the ancestral language of Westron. Evolved from the old tongue used by the Men of the House of Hador.
Though the name Ad√naic cannot have been used before the Edain travelled to N·menor at the beginning of the Second Age, the language itself, or something very close to it, seems to have been spoken in Beleriand during the First Age, at least by the people of the House of Hador. While there is no mention of its use after the Downfall, it cannot have become completely extinct at this date; it seems likely that the scholars of Gondor and of Arnor would have been familiar with the ancient tongue of their ancestors, but in general use Ad√naic was replaced by the Westron (which had developed from it) and Elvish languages.


* AdunakhЇr|Adunakhor
'Lord of the West', name taken by the nineteenth King of N·menor, the first to do so in the Ad√naic (N·menєrean) tongue; his name in Quenya was Herun·men.


* Adurant
The sixth and most southerly of the tributaries of Gelion in Ossiriand. The name means 'double stream', referring to its divided course about the island of Tol Galen.
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The southernmost of the seven rivers of Ossiriand, in which was the island of Tol Galen.


* Aeglos (plant)|Aeglos
'Snowthorn', a plant that grew on Amon R√dh.


* Aeglos (spear)|Aeglos
'Snow-point', the spear of Gil-galad, carried by him to the War of the Last Alliance.


* Aegnor
The fourth son of Finarfin (and elder brother of Galadriel), who with his brother Angrod held the northern slopes of Dorthonion; slain in the Dagor Bragollach. The name means 'Fell Fire'.


* Aelin-uial
The 'Meres of Twilight', or 'Lakes of Twilight'; the region of marshes and pools where the river Aros flowed into Sirion.
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The maze of lakes and fens formed where the River Aros met the Sirion, before it fell beneath the Andram. These were lands heavy with enchantment, both from the Girdle of Melian guarding Doriath to the north, but also from the power of Ulmo that was strong in Sirion's waters. It was here that Turgon and Finrod were given the idea of building their hidden strongholds at Gondolin and Nargothrond; an idea placed in their dreams by Ulmo.
The Aelin-uial was under the control of the Sindarin Kingdom of Doriath. Thingol's marchwardens maintained secret ferries among the reeds, so that they could cross between Sirion's easten and western banks unregarded, if need be.
At the southern end of the Aelin-uial, Sirion's waters collected together once more from the many paths they took through the marshland and, at the place called the Falls of Sirion, fell in a thundering torrent down into the earth.
Other Names: Meres of Twilight, Twilight Meres, Twilit Meres.


* Aerandir
'Sea-wanderer', one of the three mariners who accompanied Eфrendil on his voyages. 307


* Aerin
A kinswoman of H·rin Thalion in Dor-lєmin; taken as wife by Brodda the Easterling after he claimed Hithlum. She secretly aided H·rin's wife Morwen after the disaster of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.


* Afterborn
One of the Elves' many names for Men. Translation of Apanєnar.