In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional legendarium, Beleriand (IPA: [bɛˈlɛ.ri.and]) was a region in northwestern Middle-earth during the First Age. Events in...

Tolkien's legendarium. One is in the First Age, when the highlands of Dorthonion north of Beleriand became known as Mirkwood after falling under Morgoth's...

dialect, spoken in Ard-galen (before its ruin), and the highlands of Dorthonion (Taur-nu-Fuin). Doriathrin preserved many archaic features. Unlike the...

became divided by their place of dwelling, namely Hithlum, Gondolin, Dorthonion, Nargothrond and the March of Maedhros. After the War of Wrath that ended...

in Doriath; Falathrin, in the Falas of Beleriand; North Sindarin, in Dorthonion and Hithlum; Noldorin Sindarin, spoken by the Exiled Noldor. A tradition...

son is the King of Nargothrond and his brothers Angrod and Aegnor hold Dorthonion. Fingolfin's reign is marked by warfare against Morgoth; in the year 60...

was the son of Emeldir and Barahir, a man of the royal House of Bëor of Dorthonion. In contrast, Lúthien's descendant Arwen was called Evenstar, the Evening...

Tolkien used the name Mirkwood also of Taur-nu-Fuin in Beleriand (in Dorthonion, to the east of Gondolin), in the view of Tolkien's biographer John Garth...