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Bag End   (see image)
Dwelling at Hobbiton in the Shire of Bilbo Baggins, and later of Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee.
>>>  Baggins, The Hill

Baggins
A family of Hobbits of the Shire.
>>>  Bilbo Baggins

Bain
King of Dale, son of Bard.

Balar
Bay of Balar The great bay to the south of Beleriand into which the river Sirion flowed.
Isle of Balar Island in the Bay of Balar where Círdan and Gil-galad dwelt after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

Balchoth
An Easterling people akin to the Wainriders whose invasion of Calenardhon in Third Age 2510 was crushed at the Battle of the Field of Celebrant.
>>>  Eorl the Young

Baldor
Third King of Rohan, son of Brego. In TA 2570 enters the Forbidden Door and is lost.

Balin
Dwarf of the House of Durin; companion of Thorin Oakenshield, and afterwards for a brief time Lord of Moria.

Balrogs
Sindarin for Valaraukar
>>>  Gothmog, Durin's Bane

Bandobras
head of the Took family, in 2747 defeats an Orc-band in the Northfarthing.

Bar-en-Danwedh   House of Ransom
Name that Mîm gave to his dwelling on Amon Rûdh when he yielded it to Túrin.
>>>  Echad i Sedryn

Bar-en-Nibin-noeg   House of the Petty-dwarves
Mîm's dwelling on Amon Rûdh.

Bar Erib
A stronghold in Dor-Cúarthol, not far south of Amon Rûdh.

Barach
A forester of the People of Haleth in the story of "The Faithful Stone".

Barad-dûr   Dark Tower
Fortress of Sauron in Mordor.

Barad Eithel   Tower of the Well
Fortress of the Noldor at Eithel Sirion.

Baragund
Father of Morwen the wife of Húrin; nephew of Barahir and one of his twelve companions on Dorthonion.

Barahir
Father of Beren; rescued Finrod Felagund in the Dagor Bragollach, and received from him his ring; slain on Dorthonion.
>>>  Ring of Barahir

Baranduin   Long gold-brown river
River in Eriador originating from Lake Nenuial, in the Shire called the Brandywine.
>>>  Baranduin Bridge

Baranduin Bridge
Important crossing of the Ancient Dwarf Road over the Baranduin river in central Eriador.

Barazinbar

Bard
Lord of Esgaroth, slayer of Smaug. King of Dale.

Bardings

Bardings

Bardings   People of Bard
Inhabitants of Lake Town, named after their leader Bard, who slew the dragon Smaug.

Barrow-downs
Downs east of the Old Forest, on which were great burial-mounds said to have been built in the First Age by the forefathers of the Edain before they entered Beleriand.
>>>  Tyrn Gorthad

Barrow-wights
Evil spirits dwelling in the burial-mounds on the Barrow-downs.

Battle of Azanulbizar
See Azanulbizar.

Battle of Dagorlad
Name for a number of battles taking place before the northern gates of Mordor.
>>>  Dagorlad

Battle of Dale
Battle of the War of the Ring in which Sauron's northern army defeated the Men of Dale and the Dwarves of Erebor.

Battle of Five Armies

Battle of the Camp
The victory of Eärnil II of Gondor over the Wainriders in Ithilien in Third Age 1944.

Battle of the Field of Celebrant
With the aid of the Rohirrim the Wainriders could be defeated in Third Age 2510.

Battle of the Five Armies
See Battle of Five Armies.

Battle of the Gwathló
The rout of Sauron by the Númenoreans in Second Age 1700.

Battle of the Hornburg
Assault on the Homburg by the army of Saruman in the War of the Ring.

Battle of the Pelennor Fields
A major assault of Sauron's armies under the leadership of the Witch-king upon Minas Tirith.
>>>  Ride of the Rohirrim

Battle of the Plains
The defeat of Narmacil (2) of Gondor by the Wainriders in the lands south of Mirkwood in Third Age 1856.

Battle of Tumhalad
See Tumhalad.
>>>  Gondolin

Battle Plain
See Dagorlad.

Battles of the Fords of Isen
Two battles fought during the War of the Ring between Riders of Rohan and Saruman's forces out of Isengard.
>>>  Rohirrim

Bauglir   Constrainer
A name of Morgoth.

Bay of Andunië
Bay in the North-west of Númenor.

Bay of Balar
The great bay to the south of Beleriand into which the river Sirion flowed.
>>>  Balar

Bay of Belfalas
The great bay of the Belegaer Ocean that forms the coastal regions of Gondor.

Bay of Forochel
Gulf in the West of Forodwaith.

Bay of Rómenna
Bay in the East of Númenor.

Bay of Umbar

Beacons of Gondor
Seven hills of the northern Ered Nimrais.

Beleg
Elf of Doriath; a great archer, and chief of Thingol's march wardens; friend and companion of Turin, by whom he was slain.
>>>  Cuthalion

Belegaer Ocean
The great Ocean separating Aman from Middle-earth (Endor).
>>>  Tol Eressëa, Enchanted Isles

Belegost
One of the two cities of the Dwarves in the Blue Mountains.
>>>  Nogrod

Belegund
Father of Rían wife of Húor; nephew of Barahir and one of his twelve companions on Dorthonion.

Beleriand
Lands west of the Blue Mountains in the First Age. Divided into West- and East-Beleriand by the river Sirion. In the west bordered by the Belegaer Ocean, in the east limited by the river Gelion.
>>>  Ossiriand, Doriath, Realm of Nargothrond

Belfalas
Fief of Gondor; coastal region looking on to the great bay of the same name.
>>>  Bay of Belfalas

Bëor the Old
Leader of the first Men to enter Beleriand, progenitor of the First House of the Edain.
>>>  People of Beor

Beorn

Beornings
Men of the upper Vales of Anduin.

Beregar
Man from the Westlands of Númenor, descended from the House of Bëor; father of Erendis.

Beren
(1) Man of the House of Bëor, who cut the Silmaril from Morgoth's crown, and alone of mortal Men returned from the dead. Called after his return from Angband "Erchamion".
(2) Nineteenth Ruling Steward of Gondor, who gave the keys of Orthanc to Saruman.
>>>  Camlost

Bereth
Sister of Baragund and Belegund and ancestress of Erendis.

Beruthiel
Queen of Tarannon Falastur, twelfth King of Gondor. Known for her cats.

Bilbo Baggins
A Hobbit from Hobbiton, residing at Bag End. Finder of the One Ring.
>>>  Gollum, the Great Ring

Black Captain
See Lord of the Nazgûl.

Black Easterling
See Khamûl.

Black Gate
See Morannon.

Black King
See Morgoth.

Black Riders
The Nazgûl in disguise on the hunt for the One Ring.

Black Sword
See Gurthang, Mormegil.

Black Thorn of Brethil
See Gurthang.

Blessed Realm
See Aman, Valinor.

Blue Mountains
See Ered Lindon and Ered Luin.

Blue Ring
See Vilya.
>>>  The One Ring

Blue Wizards
See Ithryn Luin.

Bombadil
See Tom Bombadil.

Book of the Kings
One of the chronicles of Gondor.

Book of the Stewards
See Stewards of Gondor.

Bor

Boromir
Elder son of Denethor II, Steward of Gondor; one of the Fellowship of the Ring.

Borondir
Called "Udalraph, the Stirrupless" ; rider of Minas Tirith (2) who brought the message of Cirion to Eorl asking for his aid.

Bough of Return
See Oiolaire.

Bracegirdles
A family of Hobbits of the Shire.
>>>  Lobelia Bracegirdle

Bragollach
See Dagor Bragollach.

Brand
Third King of Dale, grandson of Bard the Bowman; slain in the Battle of Dale.

Brandir
Ruler of the People of Haleth in Brethil at the time of the coming of Túrin Turambar, by whom he was slain. Called by Túrin "Club-foot".

Brandywine
The Hobbit's name for the Baranduin.

Bree
The principal village of the Bree-Iand at the crossing of the Númenorean roads in Eriador.

Breelanders
The people living in the area about Bree, a mixture of Men and Periannath.

Brego
Second King of Rohan, son of Eorl the Young.

Bregolas
Brother of Barahir and father of Baragund and Belegund.

Bregor
Father of Barahir and Bregolas. The Bow of Bregor was preserved In Númenor.

Brethil
Forest between the rivers Teiglin and Sirion in Beleriand, dwelling-place of the People of Haleth.
>>>  Woodmen

Bridge of Khazad-dûm
Stone arch over a chasm in the Second Hall of Moria that can only be crossed in single file.

Brithiach
Ford over the river Sirion north of the Forest of Brethil.

Brithombar
The northernmost of the Havens of the Falas on the coast of Beleriand.

Brithon
River flowing into the Great Sea at Brithombar.

Brodda
Easterling in Hithlum after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad who took as wife Aerin, kinswoman of Húrin; slain by Túrin. Called the "Incomer".

Brown Lands
The desolate region between Mirkwood and the Emyn Muil.

Bruinen   Loudwater
River in Eriador, tributary (with the Mitheithel) of the Gwathló.
>>>  Ford of Bruinen below Rivendell.

Bucca of the Marish
First Thain of the Shire. Ancestor of the Oldbuck family.

Buckland
The land east of the Baranduin inhabited by Hobbits. A Farthing of the Shire.

Bucklebury Ferry
Ferry across the Brandywine River between Bucklebury and the Marish.

Bundushatûr

Bywater
Village in the Shire a few miles south-east of Hobbiton.

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Tolkienion 2003 : Letter "B" of 1338 Entries