Nogrod
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| Place from Tolkien's Legendarium |
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| Name | Nogrod |
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| Other names | Tumunzahar |
| Realm(s) | Ered Luin / Blue Mountains |
| Type | City/Citadel |
| Lifespan | First Age |
In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Nogrod was one of two Dwarven cities in the Ered Luin of Middle-earth.
It was the home of the Dwarven House known as the Firebeards. Its name in Khuzdul was Tumunzahar of unknown meaning. Nogrod was the name given to it by the Sindar of Beleriand, and translates to English as "The Hollowbold".
Nogrod lay to the south of Mount Dolmed, from which place the Dwarf-road descended west into Beleriand and east across Eriador. It was home to the renowned Dwarven smiths Gamil Zirak and his pupil Telchar: Eöl, 'the Dark Elf' often visited Nogrod, which presumably helped him to devise the metal Galvorn.
Nogrod was initially on cordial terms with the Sindar of Beleriand and traded extensively with them, but relations suddenly soured with catastrophic consequences when Thingol of Doriath and several dwarves of Nogrod were killed following an argument that arose over ownership of the Nauglamír, an ancient and precious dwarven necklace that had been crafted into union with a Silmaril, an even more magnificent elvish treasure.
The Firebeards assembled a 'great host' that successfully sacked Menegroth, however the host of Nogrod was subsequently ambushed and annihilated by a host of Laiquendi led by Thingol's son-in-law, Beren Erchamion, together with a group of Ents.
Like Belegost to the north, Nogrod was 'ruined' shortly after, when the Blue Mountains were reduced and broken during the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age. Those Firebeard Dwarves that had not been caught in the 'great host' of Nogrod annihilated at Sarn Athrad then carried on amidst the ruins of their city for another 40 years after the war, when most of these left for Khazad-dûm to merge with its people. Dwarves of one clan or another remained in the mines and mansions of the Ered Luin for thousands of years thereafter, even into the Fourth Age, and if the Firebeards survived as a distinct clan there it would have been in much reduced numbers and circumstances.
| Dwarves from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium | |
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Azaghâl | Balin | Bifur | Bofur | Bombur | Borin | Dáin I | Dáin II Ironfoot | Dís | Dori | Durin(s) | Dwalin | Fíli | Flói | Frerin | Frár | Frór | Fundin | Gamil Zirak | Gimli | Glóin | Gróin | Grór | Ibûn | Khîm | Kíli | Lóni | Mîm | Náin I | Náin II | Náin son of Grór | Náli | Nár | Narvi | Nori | Óin | Ori | Telchar | Thorin I | Thorin II Oakenshield | Thorin III | Thráin I | Thráin II | Thrór |
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| Kingdoms of the Dwarves | |
| Belegost | Iron Hills | Khazad-dûm | Lonely Mountain | Nogrod | |
