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Location
Noted as growing in Ithilien
Species
About two hundred different species in the genus Anemone
Pronunciation
ane'monees
Meaning
From Greek, 'wind-daughter'1
Other names
The plant known in Rohan as simbelmynë or evermind was similar in appearance to an anemone, and may have been a variety of the flower

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Anemones

Small flowers of many pale colours. Frodo and Sam found white and blue anemones growing in the fragrant flowered lands of Ithilien, and Tolkien also hints that simbelmynë was a variety of anemone, or at least similar in appearance.


Notes

1

According to Greek mythology, the first anemones sprang from the ground when Aphrodite wept for the loss of Adonis. This story does not, however, offer any obvious reason for naming the flower 'wind-daughter', and the connection remains somewhat mysterious. Some sources suggest that the name may have had its origins in the idea that anemones would only flower when the wind was blowing.

See also...

Celandines, Evermind

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