Ard-galen

Ard-galen, later known as Anfauglith or Dor-nu-Fauglith, was the wide green plain that lay north of the highlands of Dorthonion and south of Morgoth's fortress of Angband in the Iron Mountains, in the First Age. It was eventually desolated by Morgoth and absorbed into his dark realm known as Dor-na-Daerachas.The Atlas of Middle-earth, The First Age, The Elder Days, "Beleriand and the Lands to the North"
== History ==
In the first days after the rising of the Sun, Ard-galen was a green plain with rich grass, reaching from Hithlum and the Ered Wethrin in the west to the Blue Mountains in the east, and rising into the highlands of Dorthonion in the south. However, the plain was laid waste by poisonous gases and rivers of flame from Thangorodrim during the Dagor Bragollach, and it was renamed Anfauglith ("Gasping Dust").
The battle of Nírnaeth Arnoediad was fought on the plain, and the dead piled up in a hill in the midst of it, named Haudh-en-Ndengin, the Hill of Slain, by the Elves, and Haudh-en-Nirnaeth, the Hill of Tears, and grass grew again upon the hill and nowhere else in Anfauglith.The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter XVIII: "Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin"
Like the other lands around it, Anfauglith sank beneath the waves after the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age.
== Etymology ==
Ard-galen is a Sindarin word meaning 'Green Region'. Anfauglith and Dor-nu-Fauglith are translated in the text as 'Gasping Dust' and 'Land under Choking Ash,' respectively.The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Appendix: Index of Names
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Amharic 	አርድ-ጋሌን
Arabic 	ارض-جالن
Armenian 	Արդ-գալեն
Belarusian Cyrillic	Ард-гален
Bengali 	অর্দ-গ্যালেন
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Ард-гален (Ard-galen)
Анфауглит (Anfauglith)
Chinese (Hong Kong)	阿德加藍草原
Danish 	Ard-galen ("Den Grønne Egn")
Georgian 	არდ-გალენი
Greek 	Αρντ-Γκάλεν
Gujarati 	અર્ડે-ગેલેન
Hebrew 	ארד־גאלן (Ard-galen)
אנפאוגלית (Anfauglith)
Hindi 	अर्द-गलेन
Japanese 	アルド＝ガレン (Ard-galen)
アンファウグリス (Anfauglith)
Kannada 	ಆರ್ದ್-ಗ್ಯಾಲೆನ್
Korean 	아르 드 - 갈렌
Macedonian Cyrillic	Ард-Гален
Marathi 	अर्ड-गॅलन
Nepalese 	अर्ड-ग्लेन
Punjabi 	ਅਰਡ-ਗਲੈਨ
Russian 	Ард-гален (Ard-galen)
Анфауглиф (Anfauglith)
Serbian 	Ард-гален (Cyrillic) Ard-galen (Latin)
Анфауглитом (Cyrillic) Anfauglitom (Latin)
Sinhalese 	ආර්ඩ්-ගැල්න්
Tamil 	அர்ட்-கேலன்
Telugu 	ఆర్ద-గాలెన్
Thai 	อาร์ด-กาเลน
Urdu 	آرڈ گیلین
Yiddish 	ײַרד-גאַלענ
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