Cabed-en-Aras   Deer's Leap
Deep gorge in the river Teiglin, where Túrin slew Glaurung and where Nienor leaped to her death.
>>>  Cabed Naeramarth

Cabed Naeramarth   Leap of Dreadful Doom
Name given to Cabed-en-Aras after Nienor leaped to her death from its cliffs.

Cair Andros
Island in the river Anduin north of Minas Tirith (2) fortified by Gondor for the defence of Anórien.

Calacirya
Pass through the Pelóri Mountains of Aman.
>>>  Tirion

Calembel
Town in Gondor south of Erech.

Calenardhon   Green Province
Name of Rohan when it was the northern part of Gondor.
>>>  Eorl the Young, Gap of Rohan

Calenhad
Sixth of the beacons of Gondor in Ered Nimrais. (The name probably meant "green space", with reference to the flat turf-coveredcrown of the hill: had being derived, with the usual mutation in combinations, from sad "place, spot".)

Calimehtar
Thirtieth King of Gondor, victor over the Wainriders on the Dagorlad in Third Age 1899.

Calrnindon   Light-tower
Beacon upon Tol Uinen in the Bay of Rómenna.

Camlost

Caradhras   Redhorn
Highest of the three Mountains of Moria.
Pass of Caradhras pass over the Misty Mountains leading between the mountains Redhorn and Silvertine.
>>>  Barazinbar

Caranthir

Caras Galadhon
Capital of Lothlórien.

Carcharoth

Cardolan

Carn Dûm
The mountain marking the northern end of the Misty Mountains.

Carnen
River in Rhôvanion welling in the Iron Hills.

Carnlost
See Beren (1).

Carrock

Castamir
King of Gondor (1432-1447), usurper of the throne after the death of King Valacar and beginner of the civil war of the Kin-strife.

Celduin   River Running
River in the East of Rhôvanion welling in the Long lake.

Celebdil

Celeborn
Elf of Doriath, wedded to Galadriel.

Celebrant   Silverlode
River rising in Mirrormere and flowing through Lothlórien to join Anduin. See Field of Celebrant.

Celebrían
Daughter of Celeborn and Galadriel, wedded to Elrond. Slain by a band of Orcs.

Celebrimbor   Hand of Silver
Greatest of the smiths of Eregion, maker of the Three Rings of the Elves; slain by Sauron.

Celebros   Silver Foam
A stream in Brethil falling down to Teiglin near the Crossings.

Celegorm
The third son of Fëanor.

Celon
River in East Beleriand, rising in the Hill of Himring.

Celos
One of the rivers of Lebennin in Gondor; tributary of the Sirith. (The name must be derived from the root kelu- "flow out swiftly", formed with an ending -sse, -ssa, seen in Quenya kelussë "freshet, water falling out swiftly from a rocky spring".)

Ceorl
Rider of Rohan who brought news of the Second Battle of the Fords of Isen.

Cerin Amroth   Amroth's Mound
Hill raised for Amroth in Lothlórien.

Cermië
Quenya name of the seventh month according to the Númenórean calendar, corresponding to July.

Chieftain of the Ringwraiths
See Lord of the Nazgûl.

Children of Aulë
The Dwarves.

Children of Earth
Elves and Men.

Children of Ilúvatar
Elves and Men.

Círdan
Called "the Shipwright"; Telerin Elf, "Lord of the Havens" of the Falas; at their destruction after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad escapedwith Gil-galad to the Isle of Balar ; during the Second and Third Ages keeper of the Grey Havens in the Gulf of Lhûn; at the coming of Mithrandir entrusted to him Narya, the Ring of Fire.

Cirion
Twelfth of the Ruling Stewards of Gondor, who granted Calenardhon to the Rohirrim after the Battle of the Field of Celebrant.
>>>  Eorl the Young

Cirith Duath   Shadow Cleft
Former name of Cirith Ungol.

Cirith Forn en Andrath   The High-climbing Pass of the North
Pass over the Misty Mountains east of Rivendell. Called the "High Pass" and the "Pass of Imladris".

Cirith Ninniach   Rainbow Cleft (see image)
Name given by Túor to the ravine leading from the western hills of Dor-lómin to the Firth of Drengist.

Cirith Thoronath

Cirith Ungol   Spider's Cleft
Pass over the Ephel Duath above Minas Morgul. Named for the monstrous spider Shelob dwelling there.
>>>  Cirith Duath

Ciryandil
King of Gondor, in TA 1015 slain in the siege of Umbar.

Ciryatur
Númenórean admiral commanding the fleet sent by Tar-Minastir to the aid of Gil-galad against Sauron.

Ciryon
Third son of Isildur, slain at the Gladden Fields.

City of Corsairs

City of the Corsairs
Great númenórean harbor of Umbar. The location marks the end of the Vadi of Umbar where it opens into the bay of Umbar.
>>>  Corsairs of Umbar.

Cloudyhead
See Fanuidhol.

Common Speech
See Westron.

Cormallen
Field in Ithilien.

Corsairs of Umbar
See Umbar.

Cotton
Farmer Tolman Cotton, Hobbit of Bywater.

Council of Elrond
Council held at Rivendell before the departure of the Fellowship of the Ring, presided by Elrond.

Cracks of Doom
See Sammath Naur.

Crickhollow
Village in Buckland where Frodo stayed for a few of days before entering the Old Forest.

Crissaegrim
The mountain-peaks south of Gondolin, where were the eyries of Thorondor.

Cross-roads
The major crossing of the North-South road of Ithilien and the Morgul-road from Osgiliath to Minas Morgul.

Crossings of Teiglin
See Teiglin.

Cuivíenen   Water of Awakening
The lake in Middle-earth where the first Elves awoke.

Curufin
The fifth son of Fëanor, father of Celebrimbor.

Curufinwë
Name of Fëanor.

Curumo
The name of Curunir (Saruman) in Quenya.

Curunir   The one of cunning devices
Sindarin name of Saruman.

Cúthalion   Strongbow
By-name of Beleg.