The original Sindarin name for the wide northerly plainlands between the river Gelion and Ered Luin. The name is translated 'East Vale' (though talath relates to a wide, flat area, suggesting a very broad northern vale of Gelion). After their return to Middle-earth, the Noldor gave this land a name of their own, Thargelion, meaning simply the 'land beyond Gelion'. It was here that Caranthir son of Fëanor settled, and from him it derived a third name, becoming known as the land of Caranthir, or Dor Caranthir.
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The word talath is said to have derived from a word meaning 'flat' or 'plain', and indeed the name Talath Dirnen is translated as the 'Guarded Plain'. The same word could also be used for wide valleys, hence the translation of Talath Rhúnen as 'East Vale' rather than 'East Plain'. This was a wide flat land that nonetheless sloped downwards from the Blue Mountains in the east to the river Gelion in the west.
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