- Cities and buildings
- Fields, plains and deserts
- Forests
- Hills and mountains
- Islands and promontories
- Lands, realms and regions
- Rivers and lakes
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Dates
Last recorded in the time of Vorondil (who died in III 2029); they seem to have survived beyond this period, and perhaps even into early modern times1
Location
The fields of Rhûn
Origins
Species
Presumably a species of the genus Bos (cattle), now apparently extinct
Pronunciation
Araw is pronounced 'a'rau' (to rhyme with English 'now')
Meaning
Other names
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The oxen that lived on the lands around the Sea of Rhûn were hardier and wilder than any others in Middle-earth. Legends claimed that they were descended from the cattle of the Huntsman of the Valar, Oromë himself, and so they were named the Kine of Araw (Araw being the Sindarin form of Oromë's name). The Kine were famous as the quarry of Vorondil the Hunter, ancestor of the Ruling Stewards of Gondor. It was he who cut a horn from one of these beasts and fashioned a hunting-horn from it, which came to be carried by the eldest son of the Ruling Steward from Vorondil's time onward. The last heir to bear the horn was Boromir, who saw it broken in two in his battle with Orcs beneath Amon Hen. Notes
See also...Araw, Béma, Cows, Great Horn, Huntsman of the Valar, Oxen, Oxen of the East, The Hunter, Vorondil Indexes: About this entry:
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