Vale of Tumladen

The Vale of Tumladen,Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien, "Gondolin and the Vale of Tumladen" or Tumladen, was a green field located within the Encircling Mountains where the great city of Gondolin was located.
In the center of the Vale of Tumladen was a small hill made of smooth stone, called afterwards the Amon Gwared. This stone hill was the foundation for the city Gondolin, built by Turgon. 
==History==
Prior to its settlement by the Elves, the Vale of Tumladen was a great lake, which was eventually drained by the Dry River. It was located east of the upper waters of Sirion, as was found out later by the Elves, in the middle of the Encircling Mountains. Turgon was shown by Ulmo, a Vala, where it was located by means of a dark tunnel that ran deep under the mountains, hollowed out by streams that ran to join the Sirion. In this way, Turgon discovered the Vale of Tumladen, and thought it indeed to be a perfect place to construct his city that was supposed to be modeled after the great city of Tirion upon the green hill Tuna, back in Valinor. Indeed, after many years of labor, Gondolin did come to rival Tirion with its beauty and splendor. Gondolin, the city contained within Tumladen, survived for more than 503 years, the longest-lived of the Ñoldorin kingdoms. The Vale of Tumladen was eventually betrayed by Maeglin, however, and in so doing, Maeglin brought about the destruction of the last kingdom of the Ñoldor in Beleriand. It was there that the battle of Ecthelion of the Fountain and Gothmog, the Lord of Balrogs, took place in the very square of the King. There it was also that they slew each other, and in so doing, Ecthelion felled the mightiest of Balrogs, even though he himself was slain. And so, with the treachery of Maeglin, the fair vale of Tumladen and the city of Gondolin were destroyed and ruined.The Silmarillion: Quenta SilmarillionThe Children of Húrin, Narn i Chîn Húrin, The Tale of the Children of Húrin, I: "The Childhood of Túrin"
==Etymology==
Tumladen is a Sindarin name that means "Wide Valley",The Silmarillion, "Index of Names", entry "Tumladen" being derived from the roots tum ("valley, vale")The Silmarillion, "Appendix: Elements in Quenya and Sindarin Names", entry tum and laden ("flat, wide").The Nature of Middle-earth, "Part Three. The World, its Lands, and its Inhabitants: XVI. Galadriel and Celeborn", pg. 351 Tumladen can also be spelled as Tumladhen.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Amharic 	ጡምላደን
Arabic 	طوملادين
Armenian 	Թումլադեն
Belarusian Cyrillic	Тумладен
Bengali 	তুমলাদেন
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Тумладен
Chinese (Hong Kong)	倘拉登谷
Georgian 	ტუმლადენი
Greek 	Τυμλαδεν
Gujarati 	તુમ્લાડેન
Hebrew 	טומלאדן
Hindi 	तुमलाडेन
Japanese 	トゥムラデン
Kannada 	ತುಮ್ಲಾಡೆನ್
Kazakh 	Тұмладен (Cyrillic) Tumladen (Latin)
Korean 	툼 라덴
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Тумладэн
Macedonian Cyrillic	Тумладен
Marathi 	टुमलाडेन
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Тумладэн
Nepalese 	टुम्लदेन
Pashto 	طوملادېن
Persian 	توملادن
Punjabi 	ਤੁਮਲਾਡੇਨ
Russian 	Тумладен
Sanskrit 	टुम्लदेन्
Serbian 	Тумладен (Cyrillic) Tumladen (Latin)
Sinhalese 	ටුම්ලාඩන්
Tajik Cyrillic 	Тумладен
Tamil 	தும்லாடன்
Telugu 	తుమ్లాడెన్
Thai 	ทุมลาเดน
Urdu 	طوملادےن
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Тумладен
Uzbek 	Тумладен (Cyrillic) Tumladen (Latin)
Yiddish 	תּומלאַדען
==References==
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