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| Fair Elves |
Of all the Elvish race, those most favoured and loved are the First Kindred of the Vanyar, for they are the wisest of Elves and they always sit at the feet of Manwe, High Lord of all the Powers of Arda. They are called Fair Elves and have resided longest in the bright Light of the Trees of the Valar.
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| Fair Folk |
From the beginning, before the Making of Arda and the Count of Time, Iluvatar planned to bring the race of Elves into the World. In his grand plan these were to be the first people to be born and the fairest of all races to come into being. And so afterwards by all but their enemies, the Elves were usually called the Fair Folk.
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| Falas |
Among the Grey-elf kingdoms of Beleriand was the coastal realm of West Beleriand, called the Falas. This was the home of the Falathrim, the sea-loving Elves who were ruled by Lord Cirdan, later called Cirdan the Shipwright, for his people were the first on Middle-Earth to master the art of ship building.
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| Falathrim |
The Falathrim were the Elves of the Falas.
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| Fallohides |
Of the Halfling people called Hobbits there were said to be three strains: the Fallohides, the Stoors and the Harfoots. The Fallohides were a woodland folk and were wisest in the arts of song and poetry. By Hobbit standards, they were tall, fair-haired and fair-skinned. They numbered fewer than either of the other Hobbit strains but were more adventurous and inclined to commit acts of daring.
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| Falmari |
Of all Elves, the Third Kindred, the Teleri, lived longest on the shores of Belegaer, the Great Sea of the West. These people were wisest in the ways of the sea and so they were named the Falmari and the Sea-elves.
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| Fangorn |
Ent of Fangorn Forest. At the time of the War of the Ring, Fangorn was the oldest Ent on Middle-Earth. His name in the Westron tongue was 'Treebeard', and under that name his life story is told.
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| Fangorn Forest |
One of the most ancient forests on Middle-Earth at the time of the War of the Ring. Fangorn forest was on the southeastern end of the Misty Mountains.
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| Faramir |
Dunedain lord of Gondor. Born in the year 2983 of the Third Age, Faramir was the second son of Denethor II, the last ruling Steward of Gondor. As the Captain of the Rangers of Ithilien, Faramir led the retreat from Osgiliath to Minas Tirith before the Siege of Gondor. After his brother Boromir had been slain, Faramir was struck down by the Witch-king. Denethor went mad and he was only narrowly prevented by Gandalf from cremating the comatose Faramir. It took the healing hands of Aragorn to bring Faramir out of the death-like sleep brought on by the 'Black Breath' of the Witch-king. Once recovered, he fell in love with Eowyn, the Shieldmaiden of Rohan. After the war, the couple married and Faramir became Steward of Gondor and Prince of Ithilien until his death, in the year 82 of the Fourth Age.
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| Feanor |
Elven prince of Eldamar. The creator of the Silmarils, Feanor was the son of the Noldor High King Finwe and Queen Miriel.
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| Felarof |
Mearas, Horse of Rohan. In the twenty-sixth century of the Third Age of the Sun, Lord Leod of the Eotheod was killed trying to tame a wild Horse called 'Mansbane'. it was left to Leod's son, Eorl the Young, to take it, but there was no need, for the Horse surrendered in atonement for the slaying. Eorl renamed the Horse 'Felarof', meaning 'father of Horses', for from him were descended the Mearas, who were the magical, silver-grey race.
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| Fili |
Dwarf of Thorin and Company. In the year 2941 of the Third Age, Fili joined the Quest of the Lonely Mountain. Fili was born in the year 2859, son of Thorin Oakenshield's sister, Dis. Fili and his brother, Kili, were so fiercely loyal to their uncle that both were slain while defending the dying Thorin in the Battle of Five Armies.
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| Finarfin |
Elven-king of Eldamar. Finarfin was the third son of High King Finwe of the Noldor. Finarfin and his brother Fingolfin were born after Finwe's second marriage to Queen Indis. Feanor was their older half-brother. Finarfin married the Teleri princess Earwen of Alqualonde, and the couple had five children: Finrod, Orodreth, Angrod, Aegnor and Galadriel.
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| Finduilas |
Dunedain princess of Dol Amroth. Finduilas was the wife of Denethor II, Ruling Steward of Gondor.
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| Fingolfin |
Elven-king of Beleriand. Fingolfin was the second son of Finwe, the Noldor High King of Eldamar. His brothers were Feanor and Finarfin. Fingolfin's children were: Turgon and Aredhel.
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| Fingon |
Elven-king of Beleriand. Born in Eldamar, Fingon was the son of Fingolfin, and was among the Noldor who pursued Morgoth to Middle-Earth. After the death of his father in 455 of the First Age, Fingon became High King of Noldor. His reign, however, lasted only 18 years, for he was slain by Balrogs in the cataclysmic Battle of the Unnumbered Tears in 473. He was succeeded by his brother Turgon, and finally by his son, Gil-galad.
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| Finrod Felagund |
Elven king of Nargothrond. Born during the Ages of Starlight in Eldamar, Finrod was the son of the Noldor prince Finfarfin, and husband of the Vanyar princess Amarie. In Beleriand, Finrod first built an Elven tower on Tol Sirion, but later discovered a network of wonderful hidden caverns on the Narog River, and built the mansions of Nargothrond. Forever after he was called Finrod Felagund, the 'master of the caves'. He was the first of his race to befriend mortal Men. Finrod was slain by a Werewolf while attempting to defend Beren.
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| Finwe |
Elven king of Eldamar. Finwe was the First High King of the Noldor Elves. He was chosen by the Valar to lead his people in the Great Journey out of Middle-Earth into the Undying Lands. Finwe was married twice. His first queen was Miriel, who gave birth to Feanor, the maker of the Silmarils. His second queen was Indis, who gave birth to Fingolfin and Finarfin. Finwe was slain by Melkor while defending the Silmarils.
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| Fire-Drakes |
Of the Dragons that Morgoth brought forth from Angband during the First Age of the Sun, there were many breeds. By far the most deadly of these were the ones that vomited leaping flames from their foul bellies. These were called Fire-Drakes and among them were numbered the mightiest of Dragons. Glaurung, Father of the Dragons was the first and he had many offspring.
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| Firimar |
In the First Age of the Sun, the Elves of Middle-Earth found a new race had arisen in the land of Hildorien far to the East. This was the race of Men, whom Elves called Firimar, which is the 'mortal people'. To the minds if immortal Elves it was a frail race with little wisdom, for Men could at best but briefly learn the least murmur of knowledge before death took them.
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| First Born |
The first race to awaken in Arda was the race of the Elves. They awoke in the east when only starlight shone upon Middle-Earth and in honour of this were called the Firstborn.
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| Flies of Mordor |
The only animals in Mordor were the evil swarms of bloodsucking flies. These were grey, brown and black insects. They were loud, hateful and hungry and they were all marked, as Orcs of that land were marked, with the red eye-shaped mark of Sauron upon their backs.
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| Forgoil |
The Rohhirim were a golden-haired people who boasted the fiercest cavalry of the Westlands. They were greatly feared and hated by the barbarous neighbours, the Dunlendings, who in their contempt called them Forgoil, which in that tongue means the 'strawheads'.
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| Formenos |
After the Noldor prince Feanor created the Silmarils, he built a fortress and treausury in the north of Valinor in the Undying Lands. This stronghold was built upon a fortified hill and was named Formenos which in the High Elven tongue means 'north citadel'.
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| Fornost |
From the fourth or fifth centuries of the Third Age, the first city and capital of the Dunedain kingdom of Arnor was Fornost, the 'north fortress'.
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| Forochel |
The cold land of snow and ice to the north of the Dunedain kingdom of Arnor was called Forochel. Its people were the Lossoth or Snowmen of Forochel. They were a tribal folk who built no cities and had no kings. Little is known of the land or its people.
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| Forodwaith |
The 'Annals of the Kings and Rulers' relate how after the Fall of Angband, the fortress of Melkor, a bitter cold descended on the northern desert land of Farochel. For a long time afterwards a people named the Forodwaith lived in that land. Little is told of these people except that they endured the icy colds of the North, and from them were descended the Lossoth, who in the Third Age of the Sun, were called the Snowmen of Forochel by the Men of the West.
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| Frodo Baggins |
Hobbit of the Shire and Ring-bearer. Frodo was born in 2968 of the Third Age, the son of Drogo Baggins and Primula Brandybuck. Orphaned in childhood, he was adopted by his cousin, Bilbo Baggins of Bag End. Frodo was extremely adventurous for a Hobbit. In 3001, when Bilbo left the Shire, Frodo inherited Bag End and the One Ring. In 3018, Gandalf set Frodo on the Quest of the Ring to Rivendell where the Fellowship was formed. In 3021, Frodo embarked on the Last Riding of the Keepers of the Rings, and boarded an Elven ship and sailed to the Undying Lands.
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