seregon

noun. stonecrop, plant with red flowers, (lit.) blood of stone

A plant with red flowers growing on top of Amon Rûdh (S/203), whose name Tolkien translated as “blood of stone”, and described as “a plant of the kind called in English ‘stonecrop’; it had flowers of a deep red” (UT/148). This word is a combination of sereg “blood” and gond “stone” (SA/gond, sereg).

Elements

Word	Gloss
sereg	“blood”
gond	“stone, rock, stone, rock, [N.] stone (as a material), [G.] great stone”

Variations

• Seregon ✧ UT/148