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+ Talath Dirnen : Also called the Guarded Plain. An empty land between Nargothrond and Doriath, it was guarded by the people of Finrod.

+ Taniquetil : The highest mountain of the world. It laid in Valinor and Manwë and Varda lived on it.

+ Tarn Aeluin : A mountain lake in the highlands of Dorthonion which was said to have been hallowed by Melian. At that lake the outlaws of Barahir hid from Morgoth's forces after the Dagor Bragollach and there they were slain.

+ Taur-en-Faroth : The hills above Nargothrond. Taur-en-Faroth means "Forest of the Hunters", it was called like that because of the huge forests that grew on these hills.

+ Taur-im-Duinath : The dark forest that extended over a vast area of land to the south of Beleriand. The name means "Forest between two Rivers".

+ Taur-nu-Fuin : The name of the northern forests of Dorthonion after Morgoth had begun to corrup them after the Dagor Bragollach. It means "Forest under Nightshade" and is sometimes also used for Dorthonion itself.

+ Telchar : Telchar was a Dwarf of Nogrod. He was one of the greatest smiths of Middle-Earth. For example he forged Narsil.

+ Teiglin : A river that rose in the Ered Wethrin, near the borders of Dor-lómin and flowed through the Forest of Brethil until it finally met the Sirion.

+ Teleri : The third and last clan of the three Elf-kindreds. The other two were the Noldor and the Vanyar. In the Great Journey of the Elves the Teleri came last to Aman.

+ Telperion : Also called the White Tree. It was the elder of the Two Trees of Valinor and it's light was silver. His leaves were of dark green and his boughs were decked with brilliant flowers that shed a rain of silver dew.

+ Talath Rhúnen : Another name for Thargelion (see below). It means "The East Vale".

+ Thalos : One of the tributaries of the Gelion, the others being the Acar, the Legolin, the Brilthor, the Duilwen and the Adurant. Thalos was the second of the tributaries and it came from the Blue Mountains. In a valley of its upper course Bëor, one of the first Men, was found by Finrod. Thalos means "torrent".

+ Thangorodrim : The name of the three mountain peaks which Morgoth raised from the Iron Mountains after he had returned to Angband. They were also called Mountains of Oppression and were destroyed in the War of Wrath.

+ Thargelion : The name of the northern parts of the region that laid between the Gelion and the Blue Mountains. It was also called Dor Caranthir, meaning "Caranthir's land", and Talath Rhúnen, meaning "The East Vale".

+ Thingol : Also called Elwë. He was the Greatest of the Lords of the Sindar. During the Great Journey of the Elves to the west, Thingol met Melian in the woods of Nan Elmoth. He fell in love with her and instead of travelling on with the other Elves, Thingol stayed together with Melian in Beleriand. There they founded the woodland realm of Doriath, which Melian protected with her powers. More than 500 years they lived in peace. But then Beren brought a Silmaril to Thingol as the bride-price of Thingol's daughter Lúthien. Thingol sammoned the Dwarves to set the Silmaril into the necklace Nauglamír. But the Dwarves wanted to keep the Nacklace for themselves and they slew Thingol in his own treasury.

+ Thorondor : The mightiest eagle that ever lived. He was a friend of Turgon (see below) of Gondolin.Thorondor and his kind lived on the Encircling Mountains.

+ Thranduil : King of the Wood-Elves who dwelt in Mirkwood. He was a Sindar, probably of Doriath. He didn't like most of the Dwarves and he didn't have any contact to Rivendell or Lórien. He was related to Celebron but didn't like Galadriel because she was a Noldor. His son Legolas joined the Fellowship of the Ring in the Third Age.

+ Three Houses of the Edain : The houses of Bëor, Haleth and Hador Lórindol who remained faithful to the Elves in the Wars of Beleriand. As a reward for their faith they were given the island Númenor.

+ Thuringwethil : A vampire of Sauron. Lúthien took the form the Thuringwethil when she came to Angband during the Quest of the Silmaril. Thuringwethil died probably in the year 4681 of the First Age and her name means "Woman of Secret Shadow".

+ Tilion : Originally Tilion was a hunter of Oromë's people. But after the Darkening of Valinor, Tilion was chosen by the Valar to steer the vessel of Isil, the Moon. Sometimes he followed an uncertain path while steering the Moon because he much desired to get closer to Arien.

+ Tirion : The town that was built for the Elves after the arrival in Aman. It was built on the hill called Túna (see below). In the beginning both, Vanyar and Noldor, lived there, but later the Vanyar settled down on the Taniquetil, where Manwë lived.

+ Tol Eressëa : Also called the Lonely Isle. On this isle Ulmo brought the Elves from the shores of Middle-Earth to Valinor. It was rooted in the Bay of Eldamar by Ossë. Tol Eressëa was the most eastern of the Undying Lands of Aman.

+ Tol Galen : An isle that laid in the Adurant in Ossiriand. On this isle Beren and Lúthien dwelt after they had become mortal.

+ Tol-in-Gauroth : The name of Tol Sirion after ist capture by Sauron.

+ Tol Sirion : An island on the upper reaches of the River Sirion. On this island Finrod built a tower called Minas Tirith. It was renamed Tol-in-Gauroth after ist capture by Sauron.

+ Tom Bombadil : He lived in the Old Forest and helped the Hobbits to pass this forest. Tolkien never described Tom Bombadil. Nobody even knows what kind of being he is. He looks like a human, is surely very old and probably immortal. The only thing we know for sure is that the One Ring does not affect him, but he is also not able to destroy it. This is how Gandalf described him : "But I had forgotten Tom Bombadil, if indeed this is still the same that walked the woods and hills long ago, and even then was older than the old. Iarwain Ben-adar we call him, oldest and fatherless. The ring has no power over him. He is his own master. But he cannot alter the Ring itself, nor brake his power over others. And now he is withdrawn into a little land, within bounds that he has set, though none can see them, waiting perhaps for a change of days, and he will not step beyond them."

+ Treebeard : An Ent which Merry and Pippin met after they had been kidnapped by Orcs and seperated from the rest of the Fellowship of the Ring. Treebeard was the eldest of the Ent. He and his friends destroyed Isengart.

+ Tulkas : Tulkas was the strongest of the Valar and also called Astaldo (Quenya for "The Brave"). He was the last of the Valar who descended into Arda and with his help the Valar were finally able to defeat Melkor at least for a short time. Tulkas never used any weapons except his fists, he never rode a horse, because he was able to run faster than any animal . His wife was Nessa, Oromes' sister.

+ Tumladen : The valley in which Gondolin was founded and which was surrounded by the Encircling Mountains.

+ Tumumzahar : The elvish name of Nogrod.

+ Túna : On this hill in Aman the Vanyar and the Noldor founded their city Tirion after they had been brought by Ulmo to Aman.

+ Tûr Haretha : A green mound raised over Haleth by her people after her death. It was also called Haud-en-Arwen.

+ Tuor : Born in the year 471 of the First Age he was the son of Huor and the father of Eärendil. In his youth he was sent to Gondolin by the Vala Ulmo and there he wedded Turgon's (see below) daughter Idril. He sailed into the West in the year 560 of the First Age.

+ Turgon : Turgon was the second son of Fingolfin and younger brother to Fingon. He ruled in Nevrast until Ulmo led him to the hidden valley of Tumladen (see above), where he founded and ruled the city of Gondolin.

+ Túrin Turambar : Túrin, son of Húrin was a human and also called "Bane of Glaurung" or "The black sword". When he was a child, his mother Morwen sent him to Doriath to protect him from the Ostlings. Thingol, King of Doriath, accepted him as a foster-child and Beleg became Túrin's friend and teacher. After some years, Túrin argued with Saeros, an elf who also living in Doriath. He killed him accidently. He was so afraid that Thingol would punish him that he fled out of Doriath. He became the leader of a group of bandits and their headquarter laid in the halls of the dwarf Mîm. But the bandits had killed one of Mîm's sons and therefore he betrayed them and told the Orcs where the bandits hide. The Orcs attacked them and kidnapped Túrin. Túrin's friend, Beleg, rescued him but in his fear Túrin didn't realize that it was Beleg and slew his best friend. After that, the Noldo Gwindor led him to Nargothrond, where Túrin became a leader again, but this time the leader of a group of Elves. He led them to fight against Morgoth's servants openly, but the Elves were defeated and the dragon Glaurung destroyed Nargothrond. The curse of Morgoth was upon Túrin, and when he met his sister Nienor he fell in love with her . However he didn't know that she was his sister because their mother had sent him away to Doriath while he was still very young. So he married his own sister. It took many years until Túrin finally killed Glaurung and found out that Nienor was his sister. When he realized that, Túrin and his sister commited suicide.

+ Twilight Meres : A maze of lakes and fens that laid at the meeting point of the rivers Aros and Sirion. The land was full of enchantment because in the north laid the Girdle of Melian and in the River Sirion Ulmo's power could be felt. At this place Turgon and Finrod got the idea of building Gondolin and Nargothrond.

+ Two Trees of Valinor : The Two Trees Telperion and Laurelin brought light into the land of the Valar after the Two Lamps of the Valar had been destroyed. The Two Trees were destroyed by Melkor and Ungoliant but of their last flower and fruit the Valar built the Moon and the Sun.