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* Aftercomers
The Younger Children of Il·vatar, Men; translation of Hildor.
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One of the many names for the race of Men, who awoke long after the Elves, the Firstborn. 'Aftercomers' is a translation of the Elvish name Hildor, a word also seen in the name Hildєrien, the Land of the Hildor, the eastern region where the first Men awoke into the World.


* Afterlithe
The seventh month of the Shire Calendar, following, as its name suggests, the midsummer feastdays of Lithe, and approximately equivalent to modern July. In fact, it ran from modern 24 June to 23 July in a normal year.


* Afteryule
The first month of the Shire Calendar, thirty days immediately following the holiday of Yule (hence its name). It ran from modern 23 December to 21 January.


* Agarwaen
'Blood-stained', name given to himself by T·rin when he came to Nargothrond.


* Agathurush
Ad√naic translation of the name Gwathlє.


* Aghan
The Dr√g (Dr·adan) in the story of 'The Faithful Stone'.


* Aglarond
The 'Glittering Cavern' of Helm's Deep in Ered Nimrais; used also in reference to the fortress more strictly called the Hornburg, at the entrance to Helm's Deep.
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The Glittering Caves.
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"... gems and crystals and veins of precious ore glint in the polished walls; and the light glows through folded marbles, shell-like, translucent as the living hands of Queen Galadriel."
(From Gimli's description of Aglarond; The Two Towers III 8, The Road to Isengard)
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The deep caverns that lay behind Helm's Deep in the White Mountains. When Gimli saw them during the War of the Ring, he was astonished by their beauty. After the War he led a party of Dwarves from Erebor to Aglarond, and became Lord of the Glittering Caves.


* Aglon
'The Narrow Pass', between Dorthonion and the heights to the west of Himring.
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The narrow pass west of the March of Maedhros.
The pass between Himlad and Lothlann, to the northeast of Beleriand.


* Ailinel
The elder of Tar-Aldarion's sisters.


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