Brethil
the forest of the Haladin; the land of the Teiglin
Name and Position
Brethil — the great forest between the rivers Teiglin and Sirion, south of Doriath — was the home of the third house of the Edain, the House of Haleth (“the Haladin”), who — the Quenta: — it is a land of high birch and beech, of hills and the deep fastness.
The Realm of the Haladin
- The chosen home: The woodfolk (shy and rugged, “the least of the Edain-houses”) settled Brethil after their wanderings; they were “the Haliadrim, the ‘tree-people’” — their customs, their wooden halls and their “holy places” were kept by their own lords of the line of Haleth, and they became “the guardians of the Forest”.
- Túrin’s last years: Among the woodmen of Brethil, Túrin (as Turambar) dwelt in the last years of his doom — “the men of Brethil” took him as their captain; here he slew Glaurung at the crossing of the Teiglin beneath the forest’s edge, here Nienor (as Níniel) had come under the enchantment, wed him, and here the horror’s revelation came — the Cabed-en-Aras (the leaping-deer’s gulf) where Nienor cast herself, and the mound of both of them.
Significance
Brethil is the “inner retreat” of the tragedy’s end — the quiet green heartland of the unkingly Edain, whose refuge became the stage for the last and worst turning of the curse of Húrin — the woods where the great exile of the tale found (and lost) his last home.
Related
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