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The Cairn of Fingolfin was the place of the tomb of Fingolfin, a High King of the Ñoldor, on a high mountaintop in the northern Echoriad.[1]
History[]
After the burial of his father, Turgon set a high cairn over the grave. No enemy dared to pass over the mountain or defile the tomb until the time of the Fall of Gondolin.[2]
Translations[]
Foreign Language | Translated name |
Breton | Karn Fingolfin |
Danish | Fingolfins Dysse |
Finnish | Fingolfinin hauta |
French | Le Cairn de Fingolfin |
German | Cairn von Fingolfin |
Greek | Τύμβος του Φινγκόλφιν |
Hebrew | תל פינגולפין |
Italian | Il Tumulo di Fingolfin |
Norwegian | Fingolfins gravdyssen |
Portuguese | O Cairn de Fingolfin |
Russian | Курган Финголфин |
Scottish Gaelic | Càrn na Fingolfin |
Spanish | El cairn de Fingolfin |
References[]
- ↑ The Atlas of Middle-earth, The First Age, The Elder Days, "Gondolin"
- ↑ The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter XVIII: "Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin"