Ulmo — One of the great Valar, ‘Lord of Waters’.

Ulrad — A member of the outlaw band that Túrin joined.

Úmarth — ‘Ill-fate’, a fictitious name for his father given out by Túrin in Nargothrond.

Unnumbered Tears — The battle of Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

Urwen — Daughter of Húrin and Morwen who died in childhood; called Lalaith ‘Laughter’.

Valar — ‘The Powers’, those great spirits that entered the World at the beginning of time.

Valinor — The land of the Valar in the West, beyond the Great Sea.

Varda — The greatest of the Queens of the Valar, the spouse of Manwë.

Wildman of the Woods — Name taken by Túrin when he first came among the Men of Brethil.

Wolf-men — See Gaurwaith.

Woodmen — Dwellers in the woods south of Teiglin, plundered by the Gaurwaith.

Year of Lamentation — The year of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

Younger Children — Men. See Children of Ilúvatar.

NOTE ON THE MAP

This map is closely based on that in the published Silmarillion, which was itself derived from the map that my father made in the 1930s, and which he never replaced, but used for all his subsequent work. The formalised, and obviously very selective, representations of mountains, hills and forests are imitated from his style.

In this redrawing I have introduced certain differences, intended to simplify it and to make it more expressly applicable to the tale of The Children of Húrin. Thus it does not extend eastward to include Ossiriand and the Blue Mountains, and certain geographical features are omitted; while (with a few exceptions) only names that actually occur in the text of the tale are marked.