Derndingle

This article is about the place in Fangorn Forest. For the place in the Old Forest, see Dingle.

Derndingle was a small depression in Fangorn Forest wherein the Ents held meetings known as Entmoots.

History

This was the place in which the deliberations took place over whether to go to war against Saruman in consequence of the depredations of his Orcs. The hobbits Merry and Pippin had been taken there by Treebeard and stayed nearby with Quickbeam during the three days of the meeting. The edge of the depression was lined with evergreens, but within was empty except for a few birches that grew in the bottom.^[1]

Etymology

The name derndingle means 'hidden hollow' in an ancient language of Men in Middle-earth.

In adaptations

In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Derndingle appears differently from how it is described in the novel. It is not so much a depression as a clearing within the forest (though as Ents arrive it can be seen that they are walking down a slope into the clearing). The edge is lined with trees that resemble oaks more than evergreens, and instead of birch trees within the space there is a single, angular rock.

Translations

Foreign Language	Translated name
Danish	Løndomsdalen
Dutch	Het Schuildal
Finnish	Oudanuumen
German	Tarntobel
Hebrew	דרנדינגל

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