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Dates
Destroyed at the end of the First Age
Location
On the western bank of Sirion, immediately upriver from Aelin-uial
Race
Elves
Division
Sindar
Culture
Elves of Doriath
Pronunciation
ni'vrim
Meaning
'West March'1
Other names
West March

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Nivrim

The westernmost woods of Doriath

Map of Nivrim

The small wood that lay to the north of the Aelin-uial; the only part of the kingdom of Doriath to the west of the river Sirion, it was encompassed within the Girdle of Melian.


Notes

1

The name Nivrim comes from nivon, a word in the Doriathrin dialect for 'west', and Sindarin rim meaning 'border', so Nivrim was the west-march (or western borderland) of Doriath. On the other side of the kingdom lay Radhrim, the east-march beyond Aros, otherwise known as Arthórien.

See also...

Doriath, West March

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