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Dates
Destroyed at the end of the First Age
Location
Flowing into Dor-lómin from its surrounding hills
Settlements
The stream ran past the house of Húrin, Lord of Dor-lómin
Source
In the foothills of Amon Darthir in Ered Wethrin, the Mountains of Shadow
Outflow
Unknown1
Pronunciation
ne'n la'laith (the ai in Lalaith is pronounced like English 'eye')
Meaning
'Water of laughter', from the babbling sound of the stream

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Nen Lalaith

The laughing stream

A babbling stream that rose under Amon Darthir in Ered Wethrin, and flowed northwestwards out onto the shaded plains of Dor-lómin. There, it flowed past the house of Húrin, and was said to have given its name to his ill-fated young daughter, Lalaith.


Notes

1

Dor-lómin was a hollow land surrounded by mountains, and if it had any kind of river system, those rivers do not appear on any map. Nen Lalaith can hardly have been the only stream running out of the mountains into the land, but from the known geography, it is far from clear where those streams would have carried their water. This situation perhaps implies a central marsh or lake within Dor-lómin (like its neighbouring lands of Nevrast and Mithrim), but no such feature is recorded.

See also...

Amon Darthir, Laughter

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