Dates

Raised during the Years of the Trees;¹

Origins

Made by the Eldar as a place to construct their city of Tirion

Race

Divisions

Vanyar and Noldor

Culture

Eldar of Valinor

Settlements

The city of Tirion was built on this hill

Pronunciation

too'na

Meaning

'Hill'

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Túna

The hill on which Tirion stood

Map of Túna

The hill in Aman where the Vanyar and the Noldor founded their fair city of Tirion.

Notes

1	According to the Annals of Aman in volume X of The History of Middle-earth, the hill of Túna was raised in the Valian Year 1133 (some 3,469 years before the Darkening of Valinor).

See also...

Eärendil, Eldar of Valinor, Pass of Light, The Fair, Tirion, Tree of Tirion, Tree of Túna

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