Anórien

Anórien
General information
Location	Gondor

Anórien was a region and fiefdom of Gondor.

Description and location

Anórien lay north of Minas Tirith and the line of the White Mountains, and was the only part of the northern half of the realm, Calenardhon, which was not given to the Éothéod to become the Kingdom of Rohan.

Anórien formed a narrow strip of land consisting of the valleys of the White Mountains made up of tall grasslands, and its borders were the Mering Stream in the west and the Mouths of the Entwash in the north. Its eastern border was the border of Gondor at the Anduin. The climate was mild winters with warm summers. No cities were in Anórien, but following the line of the Great Road that led through Rohan to Arnor were built the Warning beacons of Gondor.

Etymology

Anórien was Sindarin word for 'Sun-land'.

Other names

The Rohirric name for Anórien was Sunlending.

See also

• Regions of Gondor

The location of Anórien in Middle-earth marked in red

Translations around the world

Foreign Language	Translated name
Amharic	ዓኖሪአን
Arabic	انورين
Armenian	Անորիեն
Belarusian Cyrillic	Аноріэн
Bengali	আনরিএন
Bulgarian Cyrillic	Анориен
Chinese	安諾瑞安
Georgian	ანორიენ
Greek	Ανοριεν
Gujarati	એન્નોરીયન
Hebrew	אנוריאנית
Hindi	आनोरिअन
Japanese	アノリアン
Kannada	ಅನೋರಿನ್
Kazakh	Анориан (Cyrillic) Anorïan (Latin)
Korean	아 노리 엔
Kyrgyz Cyrillic	Анориэн
Macedonian Cyrillic	Анориен
Marathi	अनोरिअन
Mongolian Cyrillic	Анориэн
Nepalese	आनोरिएन
Pashto	آنوریېن
Persian	انوریهن
Punjabi	ਅਨੋਰੀਅਨ
Russian	Анориэн
Sanskrit	आनोरिएन्
Serbian	Анориен (Cyrillic) Anorien (Latin)
Sinhalese	ඇනොරියන්
Tajik Cyrillic	Анориан
Tamil	ஆநொரிஎந்
Telugu	ఆనొరిఎన
Thai	านโริเน ?
Ukrainian Cyrillic	Анорієн
Urdu	انوریان
Uzbek	Анориен (Cyrillic) Anorien (Latin)
Yiddish	ײַנאָריען