Here is a short list of my go-to sources for researching and writing each episode of Beneath Your Feet.
I've also compiled my own list of geographical terms found in The Lord of the Rings and LOTRO itself, linked here and listed below. If I've missed any, please let me know!
Geographical Terms of Middle-earth
Barrow - a tumulus, a large mound of earth or stone placed over a burial site
Bog - undrained depressions full of peat (moss) and evergreen shrubs
Bluff - a cliff or plain face of rock
Causeway - a road across a broad body of water or wetland raised up on an embankment
Causeway - a road across a broad body of water or wetland raised up on an embankment
Combe - a small valley usually set below a hill
Dale/Dell - valley, vale
Dike - embankment constructed to control water, earthwork, rampart, canal
Dingle- small wooded hollow
Down - hill, typically with a bare top; hilly upland country
Eyot - small island in a river or lake
Fen - marsh; A habitat composed of woodland and swamp.
Firth - long, narrow estuary
Fosse - Ditch or moat
Freshet - a freshwater stream flowing into the sea
Glen - small, narrow, secluded valley
Gore - a triangular tract of land, especially one lying between larger divisions.
Heath - tract of open and uncultivated land; wasteland overgrown with shrubs.
Heather - any of various heaths having small, pinkish-purple flowers.
Hythe - port, small haven
Marsh - treeless wetlands with tall grass/sedge/cattail growth
Mead - archaic word for meadow
Mere - a small often deep body of water
Dale/Dell - valley, vale
Dike - embankment constructed to control water, earthwork, rampart, canal
Dingle- small wooded hollow
Down - hill, typically with a bare top; hilly upland country
Eyot - small island in a river or lake
Fen - marsh; A habitat composed of woodland and swamp.
Firth - long, narrow estuary
Fosse - Ditch or moat
Freshet - a freshwater stream flowing into the sea
Glen - small, narrow, secluded valley
Gore - a triangular tract of land, especially one lying between larger divisions.
Heath - tract of open and uncultivated land; wasteland overgrown with shrubs.
Heather - any of various heaths having small, pinkish-purple flowers.
Hythe - port, small haven
Marsh - treeless wetlands with tall grass/sedge/cattail growth
Mead - archaic word for meadow
Mere - a small often deep body of water
Moor - rocky, uncultivated upland
Notch - a narrow pass
Promontory - A high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff
Sedge - cyperaceae family of flowering plants, resembling grasses or rushes
Promontory - A high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff
Sedge - cyperaceae family of flowering plants, resembling grasses or rushes
Shaw - archaic term for small wood or thicket
Sloe - "Blackthorn" plant; Prunus spinosa; a large deciduous shrub
Swamp - Wetlands characterized by the presence of trees in mucky soil
Sward - a stretch of turf; a growth of grass.
Sloe - "Blackthorn" plant; Prunus spinosa; a large deciduous shrub
Swamp - Wetlands characterized by the presence of trees in mucky soil
Sward - a stretch of turf; a growth of grass.
Tarn - a small mountain lake
Tor - large outcropping of rock
Tussock - tuft, cluster of grass
Whin - any thorny or prickly shrub
Wold - treeless rolling high plain
Tussock - tuft, cluster of grass
Whin - any thorny or prickly shrub
Wold - treeless rolling high plain
