Anfalas,[1] or An-falas,[2] was a southwestern coastal region in the Outlands of Gondor.
Anfalas was known in Westron as Langstrand[1] or simply the Strand, and lay between the rivers Lefnui and Morthond, south of the Pinnath Gelin, with a wide stretch of beaches along the Belegaer ocean.
Description
The climate of the Anfalas featured mild winters and hot, dry summers.[3] The terrain consisted of scattered woodlands[4] on undulating lowlands.[5] It was sparsely populated, having no known cities due to being far from central Gondor. It was inhabited mainly by hunters, herders and men from little villages.
History
During the War of the Ring, the people of the Anfalas were led by Lord Golasgil, one of the Captains of the Outlands. He brought with him a well-armed household retinue, but mostly commanded a long line of scantily-equipped men of many sorts to the defense of Minas Tirith. Anfalas was harassed at the coasts by the Corsairs of Umbar while Golasgil was away.
Etymology
An-falas is a name in Sindarin meaning "Langstrand" or "long beach".[2] It contains the words an(d) ("long, far")[6] and falas ("beach, strand; shore;[2] surf, wave-beaten shore;[7] surfline, seashore").[8][9]
In adaptations
In The Lord of the Rings trilogy of films
In The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Anfalas was spelled as Änfäläs (¨ are actually ؞, but unicode has no roman characters with that symbol)[10] on its maps of Middle-earth.
See also
Translations
| Foreign Language | Translated name |
| Amharic | አንፋላስ |
| Arabic | أنفالاس |
| Armenian | Անֆալաս |
| Assamese | আনফালাছ |
| Belarusian Cyrillic | Анфалас |
| Bengali | আন্ফ়লস |
| Bulgarian Cyrillic | Анфалас |
| Chinese | 安法拉斯 |
| Danish | Langstrand (Anfalas) |
| Dari | انفالاس |
| Greek | Ανφαλασ |
| Gujarati | આન્ફલસ |
| Hebrew | אנפאלאס |
| Hindi | अनफालस |
| Kannada | ಅನ್ಫಲಾಸ್ |
| Kazakh | Анфалас (Cyrillic) Anfalas (Latin) |
| Kyrgyz Cyrillic | Анфалас |
| Macedonian Cyrillic | Анфалас |
| Marathi | आन्फ़लस |
| Mongolian Cyrillic | Анфалас |
| Nepalese | आन्फ़लस |
| Pashto | آنفالاس |
| Persian | انفالاس |
| Punjabi | ਅਨਫਲਾਸ |
| Russian | Анфалас |
| Serbian | Анфалас (Cyrillic) Anfalas (Latin) |
| Sinhalese | ආන්ෆලස් |
| Tajik Cyrillic | Анфалас |
| Ukrainian Cyrillic | Анфалас |
| Urdu | انفالاس |
| Uzbek | Анфалас (Cyrillic) Anfalas (Latin) |
| Yiddish | אַנפאַלאַס |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Clean vectorized map of Middle-earth from The Lord of the Rings
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Vinyar Tengwar 42, pg. 15
- ↑ The Atlas of Middle-earth, Thematic Maps, "Climate"
- ↑ The Atlas of Middle-earth, Thematic Maps, "Vegetation"
- ↑ The Atlas of Middle-earth, Thematic Maps, "Landforms"
- ↑ Parma Eldalamberon 17, "Words, Phrases, and Passages in Various Tongues in ''The Lord of the Rings''", pg. 90
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, pg. 18
- ↑ Parma Eldalamberon 17, "Words, Phrases, and Passages in Various Tongues in ''The Lord of the Rings''", pgs. 62, 73, 97
- ↑ "An-falas" on Eldamo.org
- ↑ Map of Middle-earth from The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
