War of the Dwarves and the Orcs
War of the Dwarves and Orcs (Goblins) was a great war fought between the two races. The War began when the elderly exiled Dwarven King...
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Seven Rivers of Ossir
Seven rivers that flowed through Ossiriand, the land of the Green-elves west of the Blue Mountains before the end of the First Age. The...
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Oxen
Large cattle used to carry and draw burdens, and for milk and meat. We know that they were domesticated in Middle-earth, at least in...
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Owls
Night-stalking hunting birds. They were evidently familiar to the Dwarves of northern Middle-earth: when Bilbo was sent to investigate a...
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Overhill
A small village to the north of Hobbiton and the Hill, marking the end of the short road that ran past Bag End and Bagshot Row. Though the...
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Overlithe
Just like the modern Gregorian calendar, the Shire Calendar regulated time by adding an extra day every four years. This extra day was...
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Overbourn Marshes
At the southern tip of the Old Forest, on the eastern border of the Shire, the River Brandywine was met almost simultaneously by two other...
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Over-heaven
“The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-earth and Over-heaven and of the Sundering...
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Outer Sea
The mighty sea that surrounded all the lands of Arda, Middle-earth and Aman alike. Its dark waters lapped the western shores of Valinor,...
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Outer Lands
A name for Middle-earth. Outer Lands was the term used by the Valar and the other peoples of Aman, describing the Mortal lands that lay...
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Otto Boffin
Otto Boffin, also called Otto the Fat, was an important member of the Boffin family who lived more than a century before the War of the...
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Otho Sackville-Baggins
The son of Longo Baggins and Camellia Sackville. Otho’s father Longo was Bilbo Baggins’uncle, making Otho himself Bilbo’s...
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Otherworld
A poetic name used by Bilbo in his Song of Eärendil, referring to the lands of Aman beyond the Great Sea. Since the Downfall of Númenor...
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Ost-in-Edhil
The chief city of Eregion, the great Elvish nation of the mid-Second Age. It was here that the House of the Mírdain stood, and here too...
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