The woods of Núath (somewhat conjectural)2
The woods of Núath (somewhat conjectural)2
A wooded region running along the southern feet of Ered Wethrin, to the south of Nevrast. The woods of Núath extended to the east of the sources of Nenning, as far as the springs and upper waters of the Ginglith and Narog. Tuor and Voronwë passed through these woods as they journeyed east from Vinyamar to Gondolin. Though the location of the woods of Núath is well established, they are not to be found on the map that accompanies The Silmarillion.
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The elements that make up this name seem to be nú meaning 'down' and -ath meaning 'many, a host', but it's difficult to see how these concepts fit together. The word nû was often associated with the going down of the Sun in the west, and so the fact that these woods grew in West Beleriand might be significant. |
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The woods of Núath are not shown on the map accompanying the published Silmarillion, nor are they mentioned in that book. Indeed, their only remotely canonical description is a passing mention in Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin in Unfinished Tales. Their general location is shown on an early Silmarillion map (in volume XI of The History of Middle-earth) and that is the basis of the map shown here. However, even that source only provides a simple label, with no indication of the full extent of the woods. So, while the general location shown here has a basis in an original map, the details of the region covered by trees is unavoidably speculative.
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