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Dates
Settled by Beren and Lúthien in I 469; the isle was destroyed at the end of the First Age1
Location
Between two arms of the river Adurant, in the south of Ossiriand
Races
Divisions
Source
Adurant flowed down westward from Ered Luin
Outflow
Adurant ran past the isle and on to meet the river Gelion far to the west
Other names
Tol Galen; also known, after the arrival of Beren and Lúthien, as Dor Firn-i-Guinar, the Land of the Dead that Live

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Green Isle

Tol Galen amid Adurant

Map of the Green Isle

The translated name of Tol Galen, the large river-island surrounded by the waters of the river Adurant at the southern end of Ossiriand. It was to this green island that Beren and Lúthien retired after their return from death, and during the time that they dwelt there it was known by the name Dor Firn-i-Guinar, the Land of the Dead that Live.


Notes

1

The Green Isle was apparently uninhabited before Beren and Lúthien made their home there after their return to life in I 469, and this is the date shown on the timeline for this entry. They lived on the isle for some thirty-four years until their deaths in I 503, after which the island was presumably abandoned. It would have been destroyed in the cataclysm at the end of the First Age, less than a century later.

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  • Updated 13 January 2024
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