Anfalas in The Lord of the Rings Online
Anfalas,[1] or An-falas,[2] was a southwestern coastal region in the Outlands of Gondor.
Anfalas was known in Westron as Langstrand[1] or simply the Strand, and lay between the rivers Lefnui and Morthond, south of the Pinnath Gelin, with a wide stretch of beaches along the Belegaer ocean.
Description[]
The climate of the Anfalas featured mild winters and hot, dry summers.[3] The terrain consisted of scattered woodlands[4] on undulating lowlands.[5] It was sparsely populated, having no known cities due to being far from central Gondor. It was inhabited mainly by hunters, herders and men from little villages.
History[]
During the War of the Ring, the people of the Anfalas were led by Lord Golasgil, one of the Captains of the Outlands. He brought with him a well-armed household retinue, but mostly commanded a long line of scantily-equipped men of many sorts to the defense of Minas Tirith. Anfalas was harassed at the coasts by the Corsairs of Umbar while Golasgil was away.
Etymology[]
An-falas is a name in Sindarin meaning "Langstrand" or "long beach".[2] It contains the words an(d) ("long, far")[6] and falas ("beach, strand; shore;[2] surf, wave-beaten shore;[7] surfline, seashore").[8][9]
In adaptations[]
An-falas as seen in The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth video game
In The Lord of the Rings trilogy of films[]
In The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Anfalas was spelled as Änfäläs (¨ are actually ؞, but unicode has no roman characters with that symbol)[10] on its maps of Middle-earth.
See also[]
Translations[]
| Foreign Language | Translated name |
| Amharic | አንፋላስ |
| Arabic | أنفالاس |
| Armenian | Անֆալաս |
| Assamese | আনফালাছ |
| Belarusian Cyrillic | Анфалас |
| Bengali | আন্ফ়লস |
| Bulgarian Cyrillic | Анфалас |
| Chinese | 安法拉斯 |
| Danish | Langstrand (Anfalas) |
| Dari | انفالاس |
| Greek | Ανφαλασ |
| Gujarati | આન્ફલસ |
| Hebrew | אנפאלאס |
| Hindi | अनफालस |
| Kannada | ಅನ್ಫಲಾಸ್ |
| Kazakh | Анфалас (Cyrillic) Anfalas (Latin) |
| Kyrgyz Cyrillic | Анфалас |
| Macedonian Cyrillic | Анфалас |
| Marathi | आन्फ़लस |
| Mongolian Cyrillic | Анфалас |
| Nepalese | आन्फ़लस |
| Pashto | آنفالاس |
| Persian | انفالاس |
| Punjabi | ਅਨਫਲਾਸ |
| Russian | Анфалас |
| Serbian | Анфалас (Cyrillic) Anfalas (Latin) |
| Sinhalese | ආන්ෆලස් |
| Tajik Cyrillic | Анфалас |
| Ukrainian Cyrillic | Анфалас |
| Urdu | انفالاس |
| Uzbek | Анфалас (Cyrillic) Anfalas (Latin) |
| Yiddish | אַנפאַלאַס |
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Clean vectorized map of Middle-earth from The Lord of the Rings
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Vinyar Tengwar 42, pg. 15
- ↑ The Atlas of Middle-earth, Thematic Maps, "Climate"
- ↑ The Atlas of Middle-earth, Thematic Maps, "Vegetation"
- ↑ The Atlas of Middle-earth, Thematic Maps, "Landforms"
- ↑ Parma Eldalamberon 17, "Words, Phrases and Passages in various tongues in The Lord of the Rings", pg. 90
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, pg. 18
- ↑ Parma Eldalamberon 17, "Words, Phrases and Passages in various tongues in The Lord of the Rings", pgs. 62, 73, 97
- ↑ "An-falas" on Eldamo.org
- ↑ Map of Middle-earth from The Lord of the Rings film trilogy