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| | Tolkienion Lexicon Letter G |
 | | Partial translation of Loeg Ningloron; the great stretches of reeds and iris (gladden) in and about the Anduin, where Isildur was slain and the One Ring lost. |
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http://www.tolkienion.com/lexicon/comp_g.html
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| | Unfinished Tales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Of particular note is the tale of Aldarion and Erendis, the only known story of Númenor before its fall. | | | Versions of such tales including the origins of Gandalf and the Istari (Wizards), the death of Isildur and the loss of the One Ring in the Gladden Fields, and the founding of the kingdom of Rohan help expand knowledge about Middle-earth. | | | Despite its shortcomings in editorial consistency, Unfinished Tales does provide more detailed information about characters, events and places mentioned only briefly in The Lord of the Rings. |
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http://www.butte-silverbow.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Unfinished_Tales
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| | Wetlands & Marshes of Middle-earth |
| | Isildur's three eldest sons and all but three of his men were slain. | | | Smeagol strangled Deagol and took the Ring for himself and went into hiding in the Misty Mountains. | | | Isildur managed to reach an islet near the western shore when he was seen by Orcs who slew him with poisoned arrows. |
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http://www.tuckborough.net/marshes.html
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| | gladden - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | gladden : Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] | | | gladden : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info] | | | gladden : Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition [home, info] |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=gladden&ls=a
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| | The Grey Havens - URLs |
| | The Disaster of the Gladden Fields (in Unfinished Tales: the Third Age) | | | A Description of the Island of Númenor (in Unfinished Tales: the Second Age) |
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http://www.tolkien.cro.net/urls.html
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| | Canon NO Fanon |
| | Moreover in the Unfinished Tales, just before Isildur leaves his companions in the Gladden Fields in an attempt to escape the orcs, he tells his son, | | | There he assumed the Elendilmir as King of Arnor, and proclaimed his sovereign lordship over all the Dúnedain in the North and in the South” Disaster of the Gladden Fields, Unfinished Tales | | | “He [Isildur] did not relinquish his royalty in Gondor, nor intend that the realm of Elendil should be divided for ever” Disaster of the Gladden Fields, Unfinished Tales |
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http://www.tinni.100megsfree5.com/canonNOfanon/humans.htm
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| | Valandil |
| | Valandil and his mother were in Rivendell when news of the fall of Isildur reached them. | | | He was the fourth son of Isildur, his elder brothers were killed by Orcs at the Gladden Fields along with their father. |
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http://www.theezine.net/v/valandil.html
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| | Smeagol / Gollum |
| | When Smeagol saw the Ring he immediately desired it and he asked Deagol to give it to him as a birthday present. | | | Aragorn then brought Gollum back across the Anduin and led him to the Woodland Realm of Mirkwood. | | | Unknown to Smeagol and Deagol, it was the One Ring belonging to the Dark Lord Sauron which had been lost when Isildur was slain in the Gladden Fields in the year 2. |
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http://www.tuckborough.net/gollum.html
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| | Arwen Undomiel |
| | Unfinished Tales: "The Disaster of the Gladden Fields," p. | | | March 25: The Ring is destroyed and Sauron's realm falls. | | | Arwen's mother Celebrian is captured and tormented by Orcs. |
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http://www.tuckborough.net/arwen.html
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| | Finduilas's J.R.R. Tolkien Page |
| | Among the fascinating things in the Unfinished Tales is the full history of the Disaster of the Gladden Fields, More information on the Hunt for the Ring, and the history of the Woses in Druedain Forest. | | | The stories are still rough and sometimes still in manuscript form though they are fascinating. | | | I found that the book really answered a lot of my questions, such as what happened in the battle of the fords of the Isen where Théoden's son died. |
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http://fin.go.wifl.at.org/layers/html/misc.htm
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| | He may simply have underestimated the slowness of his enemies to grasp (in more than one sense of the term) what had fallen into their hands. | | | > I was wondering if one of the reasons, maybe even an unconscious reason, >that Sauron established his citadel at Dol Guldur when he re-embodied >himself, was because it was the strategic point closest to the Gladden >Fields, A clever connection, and I think your deduction is very likely to be true. | | | Otherwise he (or his servants the wraiths) would have got a fix on it in short order. |
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http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/rec.arts.books.tolkien/20000202_The_Ring_in_Gladden
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| | Gladden Fields - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It was here, twenty-five centuries after the ambush, that the hobbit Déagol retrieved the One Ring from the Gladden and he was killed by his cousin Sméagol, who became the evil creature called Gollum. | | | At this place Isildur and his sons were ambushed by Orcs and killed. | | | Isildur attempted to escape by jumping in to the Gladden, using the power of invisibility of the One Ring. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladden_Fields
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| | Encyclopedia of Arda: Gladden River |
| | His friend, Sméagol, wanted the Ring for himself: he throttled Déagol, and stole back to his people with the golden and magical Ring. | | | While Gollum skulked away the centuries under the Mountains of Mist, he outlived all his family and his people. | | | Eventually, his grandmother, who ruled his family, cast him out and he left the banks of the Gladden River to wander into the Misty Mountains and into history, and his name became Gollum. |
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http://www.encyclopedia-of-arda.com/g/gladden.html
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| | Middle Earth Places: River Anduin |
| | - Gladden Fields:Place where Isildur was betrayed by the Ring. | | | - Parth Galen: Grassy field next to the river at the base of Amon Hen |
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http://www.patriotresource.com/lotr/places/anduin.html
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| | Return of the King Countdown Calendar |
| | (Source: "Disaster of the Gladden Fields" from Unfinished Tales) | | | What Saruman did with Isildur's body is not known. |
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002506/2003/08/22.html
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| | Re: CotW, LOTR, Book 5, Chapter 6 - The Battle of the Pelennor Fields |
| | CotW, LOTR, Book 5, Chapter 6 - The Battle of the Pelennor Field | | | Re: CotW, LOTR, Book 5, Chapter 6 - The Battle of the Pelennor F | | | Re: CotW, LOTR, Book 5, Chapter 6 - The Battle of the Pelennor Fields |
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http://www.talkaboutpeople.com/group/alt.fan.tolkien/messages/403376.html
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| | Third Age: Kings Of Arnor |
| | And in his dreams he would see flames bursting from the summit of the Meneltarma and the earth opening to swallow the forests and fields and cities, all crumbling, falling into water and darkness. | | | Upon Earendur's death his sons Amlaith, Thorondur, and Aldarion divided Arnor up in to three smaller kingdoms: Arthedain, Cardolan, and Rhudaur. | | | Technically both Gondor and Armor should have fallen under his rule, but by the time he was of age his father's nephew Meneldil was firmly in charge of the south. |
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http://www.subreality.com/thirdage/arnor.htm
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| | Trade Cards Online - info of the card Gladden Fields |
| | ''And there in the dark pools amidst the Gladden Fields...the Ring passed out of knowledge and legend...'-LotRI | | | "'And there in the dark pools amidst the Gladden Fields...the Ring passed out of knowledge and legend..."-LotRI | | | Site dedicated to the trade of collectible cards, where you will find other people interested in swapping cards with you, and where we will let you know whenever the cards you are looking for are available for trading"> |
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http://www.tradecardsonline.com/im/selectCard/card54141/clang1
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| | The LLama Butchers: Comment on Daily Dose of Tolkien Geekery |
| | I need to go back and consult my copy of "Unfinished Tales" to read over the story of the Gladden Fields, but I seem to recall Isildur acting a little "ring-possessed" in that tale. | | | I'll also need to scan through the Index of Tolkien's "Letters" to see if he has an comment on Isildur's desire to keep the ring for its own sake. |
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http://blog.mu.nu/cgi/splorp.cgi?entry_id=121921
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| | TolkienWiki: Ohtar |
| | Ohtar was the esquire of Isildur, who brought the shards of Elendil's sword (Narsil) to Imladris after being ordered to flee from The Disaster of the Gladden Fields with one companion before Isildur's men were surrounded. | | | Ohtar, "warrior, soldier", was the title of all who, though fully trained and experienced, had not yet been admitted to the rank of roquen, "knight". | | | Unfinished Tales/The Disaster of the Gladden Fields note #17 |
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http://www.thetolkienwiki.org/wiki.cgi?Ohtar
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| | Council of Elrond :: LotR News and Information |
| | While he was swimming the Ring slipped off of his finger, making him visible once more, and Orc archers killed him. | | | Around TA 1350, the Gladden Fields was settled by Stoors leaving The Angle. | | | Located in Rhovanion between Mirkwood and the River Anduin, across from the mouth of the River Gladden. |
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http://www.councilofelrond.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Encyclopedia&file=index&action=DisplayTerm&pn_vid=3&pn_id=4498
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| | The Grey Havens - Songs & Tales: Unfinished Tales: The Third Age |
| | He was a man of strength and endurance that few even of the Dúnedain of that age could equal, but he had little hope to gain the other shore. | | | Nonetheless it proved in the event that the War of the Ring was lost at the Disaster of the Gladden Fields. | | | In the text given here the implication is that the third was Estelmo, Elendur's esquire, who survived the battle. |
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http://tolkien.cro.net/talesong/utfa.html
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| | Culture : Overview : Houses of Mark - Mark Of The Riders |
| | It was only 10 generations ago that a well loved bastard son of a renowned Niu noble and a fair but landless lass of Eowain earned his own device through a combination of heroic feats on the battle field and unsurpassed chivalry and wit at court. | | | For his deeds and valor on the Field of Celebrant, he was given the rich lands which would soon surround Romenmark. | | | It is said that Irengar wore no armor in his wrath (said to be a curse of the Witch-king for some of Holdred's house have had terrible tempers). |
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http://rohan.elendor.net/culture/houses.html
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| | The Barrow-Downs |
| | Gollum, one of the most important characters in The Lord of the Rings, was the first and last person to wear the re-found Ruling Ring. | | | Originally, Gollum was a hobbit of the tribe of the Stoors, who lived near the Gladden Fields in his time. | | | In 3017, Gollum was released, but of what he did in the whole of his 76 years of wandering we know few, and Gandalf remained tight-lipped on it. |
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http://www.barrowdowns.com/theme-gollum.php
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| | The Second Battle OF The Gladden Fields(The Attack Of The New Shadow) - THE TOLKIEN FORUM |
| | Times were happy, Rytandur the Dwarf had gotten elves (those who stayed), other dwares, and hobbits to drive out most of the evil things lurking in the Misty Mountains and had a few Dwarves even live in the Gladden Fields. | | | The three races also built a stronghold in the Misty Mountains, because a new power was growing in Harad. | | | It fell to the ground of the Gladden Fields, black blood coming out of its neck all the way down. |
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http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?t=4720
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| | When I was trying to work out *why* Eomer would want to pass through Lorien, I figured that it would make more sense if he was passing through there on his way home rather than away from it. | | | The northern extension of the Misty Mountains is where Eomer and his band sets off, and their journey home leads them past the Gladden Fields before finally, Lorien. | | | This was often what the warrior felt after hunts such as these-- after the adrenaline had died down and they bore their pelts with pride, all that was left was the long journey home. |
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http://www.trinitycross.net/word/fics/LOTRpeace.txt
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| | Of Elflings and Mice, by Soledad |
| | According to “The Unfinished Tales,” Oropher had withdrawn there to be free from the power and encroachments of the Dwarves of Moria. | | | How she begged for light for these forsaken fields that were at the mercy of the Great Enemy. | | | How she sang to the great trees under the newborn stars. |
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http://www.freewebs.com/edhellond3/soledad/elflings.htm
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| | Disaster of Gladden Fields |
| | With the struggle he felt his strength drawn from him. | | | He was swept towards the tangles of the Gladden Fields and was struggling among great rushes and floating greens and weeds. | | | But then he threw all of his armor and weapons save a short sword and plunged into the river. |
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http://www.annalsofarda.dk/annals-of-arda/Battles-index-tables/Battles/Disaster-of-Gladden-fields.htm
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| | Now Darkness Falls - Chapter 1 |
| | Back then I used to be fascinated by the elves, stopping and staring every time I got the chance to gaze at one. | | | Maybe it was because neither of us was very well liked in our families, but we spent our time together all the time. | | | They made a living by fishing among the golden flowers of the Gladden River. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/film/lotrfansite/gollumfanfiction.html
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| | Fanatics Plaza: Gondor Kingdom |
| | He attempted to escape by using the One Ring's power of invisibility to hide him as he swam across the river. | | | Two years later, Isildur was ambushed by a horde of orcs in the Gladden Fields. | | | Born 3209 Second Age in Numenor, Died 2 Third Age on the Gladden Fields |
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http://www.lotrplaza.com/Gondor/hall.asp
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| | Book II, Chapter 2: The Council Of El Rond |
| | Afterwards, El Rond recounted the story of the finger cutting, where Sauron was mad at Gil-Gallamine for not faling under the seductive power of the Ring. | | | Othar is my original name, but after the Battle of the Gladden fields, I stopped excercising and gave heed to prowesses of the mind only. | | | As this was happening, Elendil, being peace loving as he was, tried to prevent Gil-Gallamine from cutting Sauron's finger, but he tripped on his sword Narsil and broke it at the same time. |
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http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/book/book2_02.htm
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| | Anduin and Limlight |
| | (The Shadow of the Past; Bk 1; The Disaster of Gladden Fields; Unfinished Tales). | | | Just before the point where the river Limlight joined the Anduin, Aragorn told them that they were then about 180 miles south of the Southfarthing – say some 240 miles south of Hobbiton. | | | The Anduin ran through a steep valley above Lothlorien, which widened out further north where the River Gladden ran into it through great marshes. |
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http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/library/fantasy/11/anduin_and_limlight.htm
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| | The History of the One Ring |
| | He leaped into the waters, but the Ring slipped from his finger as he swam, and then the Orcs saw him and killed him with arrows. | | | For Isildur was marching north along the east banks of the River, and near the Gladden Fields he was waylaid by the Orcs of the Mountains, and almost all his folk were slain. | | | On a time they took a boat and went down to the Gladden Fields, where there were great beds of iris and flowering reeds. |
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http://fan.theonering.net/middleearthtours/ringhistory.html
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| | The Grey Havens - Songs & Tales: Isildur - Chapter Thirteen |
| | Isildur cursed the delay that had kept him from returning to help the Galadrim, but he could see nothing that could be done now. | | | And so Isildur and his sons worked all that autumn and winter in Osgiliath, overseeing the repairs and the planting of crops in the fields that had lain fallow for so long. | | | Those from Osgiliath returned to the houses from which they had fled the night of that first terrifying attack and found their families living there again. |
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http://tolkien.cro.net/talesong/isildur/gladden.html
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| | Legolas of Mirkwood: Prince Among Equals |
| | He never calls himself a king's son or Thranduil's heir, and in fact, his words do a good job of concealing their relationship. | | | This he did to be free from the power and encroachments of the Dwarves of Moria, which had grown to be the greatest of the mansions of the Dwarves recorded in history; and also he resented the intrusions of Celeborn and Galadriel into Lórien. | | | In the Second Age their king, Oropher [the father of Thranduil, father of Legolas], had withdrawn northward beyond the Gladden Fields. |
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http://www.istad.org/tolkien/legolas.html
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| | LOTR_G-L |
| | to the flames of Orodruin, and caused it to be lost at his death in the ambush at the Gladden Fields | | | Isildur's bane Isildur see Sil; his 'bane' was Sauron's One Ring, which Isildur kept rather than assign | | | Gladden River anglicized form of CS; see previous; converges with the Anduin at the Gladden Fields |
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http://www.quicksilver899.com/Tolkien/LOTR/LOTR_GL.html
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| | Westron |
| | Tolkien explains: "The language represented in this history by English was the Westron or 'Common Speech' of the West-lands of Middle-earth in the Third Age. | | | At the time of the War of the Ring at the end of the age these were still its bounds as a native tongue." (Appendix F) While the Westron of Gondor had an archaic flavour, the hobbits spoke a rustic dialect of it. | | | It had also spread north up the Anduin, occupying the lands west of the River and east of the mountains as far as the Gladden Fields. |
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http://www.uib.no/people/hnohf/westron.htm
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| | Gladden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Saruman searched the Gladden extensively during his search for the Ring, but never found the ring, although he seems to have found Isildur's remains. | | | After the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, Isildur, heir of Elendil and bearer of the One Ring, was assailed by Orcs near the Gladden Fields, and the One Ring was lost here in the Gladden river. | | | Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the River Gladden was a river of Rhovanion and a tributary to the Anduin. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladden
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| | (Taliron, Randinen, Faerendis) The Master Mirdan takes her on a ride in the Gladden Fields where he confers the jewels she will be working with on Gilrowen. |
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http://www.geocities.com/misteonone/gillog4.html
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| | The Shire of Hobbits: Hall of Hobbitry |
| | Smeagol's family kicked him out of the Gladden Fields after first giving him his nickname, Gollum. | | | Smeagol immediately killed his cousin Deagol for the Ring. | | | The people of Cardolan were forced back to their burial fields at Tyrn Gorthad (the Barrow-downs). |
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http://www.geocities.com/shireofthehobbits/concerninghobbits/hobbithistory.htm
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| | Third Age: The Northmen |
| | This was the beginning of the Eotheod, who eventually became the Rohirrim. | | | This was the beginning of the Eotheod -- who eventually became the Rohirrim. | | | Afterward, he gathered the scattered Northmen and led them to the vales of the Anduin between Gladden Fields and the Carrock. |
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http://www.subreality.com/thirdage/northmen.htm
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| | The Ultimate Elendur Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference |
| | The first Elendur (S.A. 3299–T.A. 2) was the son of Isildur, who fell beside him at Gladden Fields. | | | Before the disaster, he alone of the sons counselled Isildur to return the One Ring to the Keepers of the Three Rings. |
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http://www.dogluvers.com/dog_breeds/Elendur
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| | LOTR - Characters - Gollum |
| | Despite his fear of the Sun and the Moon, Gollum emerged from under the mountains to seek the hobbit whom he suspected had his "Precious," the One Ring. | | | Around 2463, he and his cousin DÈagol found (or were found by) the One Ring, which Isildur had lost there two and a half millennia before. | | | Gollum was born the hobbit SmÈagol in a small community near the Gladden Fields in year 2430 of the Third Age. |
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http://www.abcusd.k12.ca.us/projectlotr/characters/gollum.html
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| | Encyclopedia of Arda: Gladden Fields |
| | The marshlands that formed where the Gladden River flowed down out of the Misty Mountains and into the Great River Anduin. | | | This was the site of Isildur's loss of the One Ring in the first years of the Third Age. | | | The fields at the mouth of the Gladden River |
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http://www.encyclopedia-of-arda.com/g/gladdenfields.html
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| | Return of the King Countdown Calendar |
| | Isildur's eldest son and heir, Elendur, died with Isildur at the battle at the Gladden Fields. |
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| | Gladden Farms, Tucson - A Master-Planned Community |
| | Drive into Gladden Farms and follow the signs to beautiful model homes. | | | Gladden Farms gives you peaceful country living and small-town values, with the conveniences of the big city only minutes away. | | | Land has also been set aside for a Marana school. |
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http://gladdenfarms.com
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| | The Lord of the Rings Places and Locations |
| | Later the Rohirrim rode once more to the aid of Gondor, in the Battle of Pelennor Fields Théoden was slain by the Witch-king, before his death was avenged by his niece Éowyn. | | | Built at the eastern end of the White Mountains at the feet of Mindolluin, it was a vast citadel with seven circular levels terraced upon each other. | | | The city was originally called Minas Anor the Tower of the Setting Sun, but was renamed Minas Tirith the Tower of Guard after the Witch-king sacked the city of Minas Ithil. |
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| | Estelmo |
| | In the Disaster of Gladden Fields Estelmo was one of the three who survived to tell what happened and he was one of the last to fall stunned by a club. | | | He was found alive under Elendur`s body and he heard the words of Elendil and Isildur at their parting. | | | Probably born in Númenor in the second age and journeyed with Elendil at the Downfall of Númenor to Middle-Earth. |
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