Snails
Shell-bearing gastropod molluscs. Those of Erebor were particularly noted for their large size. VN:F [1.9.11_1134]please wait...Rating: 0.0/
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Snaga
A contemptuous term for the lesser Orcs of Mordor and Isengard, used especially among the larger and stronger Uruk-hai. It comes from a...
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Smith
A title given to the Vala Aulë, the maker of the Dwarves. VN:F [1.9.11_1134]please wait...Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast)
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Smials
The term the Hobbits themselves used for their excavated dwellings, more usually called simply ‘hobbit-holes’. VN:F [1.9.11_1134
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Sméagol
A Hobbit of Stoor-kind who lived on the banks of the Anduin in the later Third Age. His friend Déagol came upon the One Ring, but Sméagol...
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Smaug
“My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a...
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Slinker
Sam’s name for the pathetic, whimpering side to Gollum’s personality, faithful to Frodo and desperate for his approval....
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Skin-changers
Creatures who could take different forms at will. Little is known of their abilities; the only skin-changers identified by Tolkien were...
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Sleep of Yavanna
In very ancient times, the Valar set up two great Lamps in the north and south of the World, and settled on the island of Almaren in...
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Skinbark
With Treebeard and Leaflock, one of the three oldest Ents of Fangorn Forest. He lived on the slopes above and to the west of Isengard, and...
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Sirion’s Vale
The shallow lands that lay either side of Sirion, more commonly called the Vale, or Vales, of Sirion. They ran roughly north to south, and...
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Sirith
A Gondorian river that rose in the White Mountains in eastern Lebennin, and flowed southward. At the point where it met the Great River...
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Siriondil, son of Calimmacil
A lesser member of the Royal House of Gondor, who could trace his ancestry back to King Telumehtar Umbardacil (Siriondil was descended from...
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Siriondil, King of Gondor
The eleventh of Gondor’s Kings, who succeeded his father King Atanatar I during the waning years of the Third Age’s first...
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