Amon Lanc

Amon Lanc, the "Naked Hill", was a hill in the southern parts of Greenwood the Great. It was capital of the Woodland Realm of the Silvan Elves, for a time, under King Oropher in the Second Age.J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn"
Around a millennium after his defeat in the War of the Last Alliance, Sauron came to Amon Lanc and claimed Oropher's abandoned stronghold. The hill and fortress were then together called Dol Guldur, and the wood in which it stood became known as Mirkwood.2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The Disaster of the Gladden Fields"
In the Fourth Age, southern Mirkwood became known as East LórienJ.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Great Years" and, with Dol Guldur cleansed of evil, Amon Lanc was a part of it.
==Etymology==
Amon Lanc is Sindarin, consisting of amon ("hill") + lanc ("naked").
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Russian 	Амон Ланк
Serbian 	Амон Ланк (Cyrillic) Amon Lank (Latin)
Ukrainian Cyrillic	Амон-Ланк
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