Belegost
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| Dates: | Founded before the First Age. Destroyed at the end of that Age. | ||||||||||||||
| Location: | Ered Luin | ||||||||||||||
| Race: | Dwarves | ||||||||||||||
| Division: | Not certainly known1 | ||||||||||||||
| Pronunciation: | be'legost | ||||||||||||||
| Meaning: | 'Great fortress' | ||||||||||||||
A citadel of the Dwarves in the Blue Mountains
An Elvish name (meaning simply 'Great Fortress') for the Dwarf-citadel that lay in the Blue Mountains.
Footnotes
| 1 | The Dwarves of Belegost did not belong to the Longbeards, Durin's Folk, but were descended from one of the other Fathers of the Dwarves. |
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