Kheled-zâram

Kheled-zâram, known in Westron as Mirrormere, was a small lake in Azanulbizar, a vale east of Moria. It was the source of the Silverlode.
In The Fellowship of the Ring, it is described as follows:
"Its waters were dark: a deep blue like clear evening sky seen from a lamp-lit room. Its face was still and unruffled. About it lay a smooth sward, shelving down on all sides to its bare unbroken rim."
==Geography==
The lake lay less than a mile east and a little below the East-gate of Moria. It was long and oval, shaped like a great spear-head thrust deep into the northern glen of the vale. Its waters were dark; a deep blue like a clear evening sky, and there was a smooth sward of grass around its rim.The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, chapter VI: "Lothlórien"
==History==
In the First Age, Durin, the oldest of the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves, wandered into Azanulbizar vale and beheld in a small, still lake a reflection of himself bearing a crown of seven stars, a reflection of the constellation which would become known as Durin's Crown. Because of this sign, Durin chose to build his great hall in the mountains above that vale, but ever afterwards, only he could see his reflection in the lake.The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, chapter IV: "A Journey in the Dark"
The Dwarves of Durin's Folk regarded this site as sacred and built a monument there. It was a single stone column called Durin's Stone, standing by the roadside. After Moria was abandoned it fell into disrepair, and in the last years of the Third Age it was cracked, weather-worn, and broken at the top.
When Balin came to retake Moria in TA 2989, one of his companions, a Dwarf named Flói, was slain in a battle before the Gates and was buried in a place of honor by the banks of Kheled-zâram. Balin himself was killed here five years later, by an Orc arrow, when he went alone to look into the lake.The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, chapter V: "The Bridge of Khazad-dûm"
In early TA 3019, the Fellowship of the Ring stopped briefly at Kheled-zâram after fleeing Moria while Gimli, Frodo, and Sam took time to look into the lake amid their hurry.
==Etymology==
The name Kheled-zâram is Khuzdûl, meaning "Glass-lake".The History of Middle-earth, Vol. VI: The Return of the Shadow, chapter XXV: "The Mines of Moria", Notes
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Chinese 	卡雷德—薩魯姆 (Kheled-zâram)
鏡影湖 (Mirrormere)
Danish 	Spejledam (Kheled-Zâram)
Dutch 	Spiegelmeer (Kheled-zâram)
Finnish 	Kheled-Zâram a. k. a. Kuvastaja
German 	Kheled-zâram a. k. a. Spiegelsee
Hebrew 	קהלד זאראם
Italian 	Kheled-zâram a.k.a. Mirolago
Norwegian 	Kheled-Zâram a. k. a. Speiltjernet
Portuguese 	Kheled-zâram a.k.a. Lago-espelho or Lago-Espelho (Brazilian Portuguese)
Kheled-zâram a.k.a. Lago do Espelho (Portugal)
Russian 	Келед-зарам
Spanish (Spain and Latin America)	Kheled-zâram a.k.a. Lago Espejo
Turkish 	Kheled-Zâram a. k. a. Aynagöl
==References==
Category:Lakes
Category:Misty Mountains
Category:Khuzdûl names & words
de:Spiegelsee
es:Lago Espejo
fr:Lac du Miroir
it:Kheled-zâram
pl:Jezioro Zwierciadlane
ru:Зеркальное