In the folklore of Gondor, it was especially powerful in the hands of the King, perhaps because of the Elvish heritage of the royal House of Elendil. Athelas Ī healing herb, called asëa aranion in Quenya and athelas in Sindarin, translated to English as kingsfoil.Īccording to The Lord of the Rings, it was first brought to Middle-earth by Númenóreans, but by the end of the Third Age the knowledge of its healing properties was lost among all but the Rangers of the North. Christopher Tolkien surmised that in the second case the flower should be equated with the simbelmynë, which was also white-coloured and never-fading, and that in Legolas's song the reference is to a different plant. of mallos and alfirin" that grew in the land of Lebennin in Gondor while in the story of Cirion and Eorl it is stated that "the white flowers of alfirin" bloomed upon the mound of Elendil on Amon Anwar. In The Lord of the Rings, Legolas sang about "the golden bells. The name alfirin, apparently meaning 'immortal' in Sindarin, was used by Tolkien twice. The name, shared by the spear of Gil-galad, means 'snow-thorn' in Sindarin. Christopher Tolkien stated that aeglos was "like furze (gorse), but larger, and with white flowers" he also compared it with the yellow-flowered gorse bushes said in The Lord of the Rings to have grown in Ithilien. Species Aeglos Ī kind of shrub that grew around the hill of Amon Rûdh in Beleriand, described in the Narn i Chîn Húrin as "long-legged", sweet-smelling and creating gloomy "aisles" beneath the roof of branches. In Quenya, an Elven tongue devised by Tolkien, the general term for plants as distinct from animals was olvar. Under the Species heading, only those that differ from real-world plants are included. This is a list of all fictional plants that appear in J.
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