Simbelmynë

Simbelmynë, also called Evermind and initially named Alfirin, was a white flower of Arda, known for its significance in Rohan.
== History ==
Upon Tuor's arrival in Gondolin, he found these flowers and named them uilos.Unfinished Tales, Part One: The First Age, "Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin" These flowers also grew on Elendil's tomb on Amon Anwar, and were there called alfirin.Unfinished Tales, Part Three: The Third Age, "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan" Later, in the Third Age, simbelmynë, as the Rohirrim called it, grew notably on the graves of the Kings of Rohan outside Edoras, and most abundantly on the burial mound of Helm Hammerhand.The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The House of Eorl"
The Elf Legolas used the same term alfirin (and mallos) to refer to an apparently different type of flower, described as "golden bells", found in Lebennin in Gondor.
== Etymology and inspiration ==
Simbelmynë is an Old English term which means "ever-mind", and was the term used commonly in Rohan. The Elves called the same flower uilos ("snow white") and alfirin ("not mortal"Parma Eldalamberon XVII, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", pgs. 100 & 101).
This flower was inspired by wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa), a European flower of the buttercup family. J.R.R. Tolkien stated this in Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings.The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, pg. 780
== In adaptations ==
In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Théoden holds one of these flowers in front of his son Théodred's tomb, when he is there with Gandalf after the burial procession. Simbelmynë is shown covering all the surrounding mounds under which Théoden's forebears had been buried.
== Translations ==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Amharic 	ጺምበልምይነ
Arabic 	صيمبيلميني
Armenian 	Սիմբելմյնե
Belarusian Cyrillic	Сімбелмынe
Bengali 	সিম্বলিম্যানে
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Симбелмыне
Chinese (Hong Kong)	永誌花
Chinese (Mainland) 	辛贝穆奈
Georgian 	სიმბელმინე
Greek 	Σιμβελμυνε
Gujarati 	સિમ્બેલ્મીની
Hebrew 	סימבלמינה
Hindi 	षिम्बेल्म्य्ने
Kannada 	ಸಿಂಬೆಲ್ಮಿನಾ
Kazakh 	Сімбелмйне (Cyrillic) Simbelmyne (Latin)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Симбэлмйнэ
Laotian 	ສິມບເລມຢນເ
Macedonian Cyrillic	Симбелмyне
Marathi 	सिम्बलमेनी
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Симбэлмынё
Nepalese 	सिम्बलमेनी
Persian 	صیمبهلمینه
Punjabi 	ਸਿਮਬਲੇਮਨੀ
Russian 	Симбельминэ
Sanskrit 	षिम्बेल्म्य्ने
Sinhalese 	සිම්බල්මිනි
Tajik Cyrillic 	Симбелмyне
Tamil 	சிம்பெலாமினே
Telugu 	సింబల్మినే
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Сімбельмине
Urdu 	صیمبےلمینے
Yiddish 	סימבעלמינע
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