Gladden Fields

The Gladden Fields were a marshland located in the vale of the Gladden river, and on the banks of the river Anduin. It was there that the One Ring was lost by Isildur, and found again centuries later by Déagol the Stoor.
==Geography==
The fields started near the mouth of the river Gladden, and went on beyond where it joined the Great River, extending onto its eastern banks. It was a region of many dark pools and islets, with beds of reeds and rushes and many wildflowers - a particularly common flower being the Yellow Iris, which grew there in profusion.
In ancient times when the Silvan Elves were in the region, there was a pool or lake at the intersection of the two rivers; however, over time this receded, forming the marshes.
==History==
In the First Age the Dwarves of Khazad-dûm built a road through the region, raising a causeway to carry it through the marshes. With the closing of Khazad-dûm following the War of the Elves and Sauron the road became disused and nothing remained of it in the area by the Third Age.
It was at the Gladden Fields that Isildur and his sons were travelling to Rivendell when they were assailed by Orcs in TA 2. Isildur, in an attempt to escape, jumped into the river, using the Ring to be hidden. However, the Ring slipped from his finger as he swam away, landing in the riverbed, and Isildur was slain by Orcs' arrows on the bank of a small islet.
The fields were later settled by Stoors around TA 1356. The Ring remained undiscovered.
Around two and a half millennia after the ambush, in TA 2463, the Hobbit Déagol found the ring when he was fishing with his cousin Sméagol: an especially large fish pulled him under the water and, spotting it amongst the weeds, he took it to the bank. Ensnared by the Ring's power, the two fought over it, and ultimately it went to Sméagol, who killed Déagol and was eventually twisted into the creature called Gollum.
Later, around TA 2851, Saruman began searching the wetlands for the Ring. He found the Elendilmir, the token of Royalty of Arnor, which Isildur had been wearing at the time of the attack and the casket that had once held the Ring. At the meeting of the White Council that year, Saruman overruled Gandalf's suggestion that they drive Sauron from his stronghold in Dol Guldur.
Sauron also sent his servants to search for the Ring. When Saruman learned of this, he agreed to an attack on Dol Guldur in TA 2941 to prevent Sauron from finding the Ring. At the meeting of the White Council in TA 2953, Saruman pretended that the Ring had been carried downriver to the Sea.The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B: The Tale of Years (Chronology of the Westlands), "The Third Age"
In TA 3018 the Nazgûl searched the area looking for 'Shire' and 'Baggins' but discovered only long abandoned ruins of Stoor dwellings.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Gladden Velde
Albanian 	Gëzoj Fushat
Amharic 	ጝላዸን ፊአልድስ
Arabic 	فرح الحقول
Armenian 	Գլադդեն Ֆիելդս
Azerbaijani 	Sevindirmək Sahələri
Basque 	Alaitu Eremuak
Belarusian Cyrillic	Гладден Фіелдс
Bengali 	প্রসন্ন ক্ষেত্র ?
Bosnian 	Gladden Polja
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Перуникови поля
Catalan 	Camps Gladios
Chinese 	格拉頓平原
Croatian 	Gladdenska Polja
Czech 	Kosatcová Pole
Danish 	Irissletten / Åkandeengene
Dutch 	Lissevelden
Esperanto 	Gladden Kampoj
Estonian 	Võhumõõgaväljad
Filipino 	Sumaya mga patlang
Finnish 	Kurjenmiekkakentät
French 	Champs de Flambes
Champs aux Iris
Champs d'Iris
German 	Schwertelfelder
Greek 	πεδία χαροποιώ ?
Hebrew 	שדות הסיפנים (lit. Field of reeds, named after the prevalent reeds in the area)
Hungarian 	Nősziromfölde
Icelandic 	Gladden Reitur ?
Indonesian 	Bidang Gladden
Irish Gaelic 	Réimsí Gladden
Italian 	Campi Iridati
Kannada 	ಗ್ಲ್ಯಾಡೆನ್ ಜಾಗ
Kazakh 	Қуанышты өрістер (Cyrillic) Qwanıştı örister (Latin)
Korean 	기쁘게 필드
Latin 	Laetificas Agris
Latvian 	Priecēt Lauki
Lithuanian 	Pradžiuginti Laukai
Macedonian Cyrillic	Гладден Фиелдс
Maltese 	Oqsma Gladden
Malaysian 	Bidang Gladden
Manx 	Magheryn Gladden
Nepalese 	ङ्लद्देन क्षेत्रहरु
Norwegian 	Sverdliljevollene
Persian 	غلادن زمینه های
Polish 	Pola Gladden
Portuguese 	Campos Gladden / Campos de Lis
Romanian 	Domenii Gladden
Russian 	Ирисная низина (lit. Iris lowland, named after the yellow iris in which it's abundant)
Serbian (Cyrillic) 	Гладенска поља
Serbian (Latin) 	Gladenska polja
Slovak 	Šťastné polia
Slovenian 	Gladdenovo polje
Spanish 	Campos Gladios
Swedish 	Liljeängarna
Tajik Cyrillic 	Гладден Фиелдс
Tamil 	கிளாடன் புலங்கள்
Thai 	ทุ่งแกลดเดน
Turkish 	Ferah Çayırlar
Welsh 	Meysydd Gladden
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Ґладден поля ?
Urdu 	علاڈےن فیےلدس ?
Yiddish 	גלאַדדען פֿיעלדס
==References==
Category:Fields
Category:Marshes
Category:Rhovanion
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