falas

place name. Western Shore, (lit.) Coast

falas

place name. Western Shore, (lit.) Coast

Region on the coast of Beleriand (S/58). This name is simply the word falas “shore, coast” used as a name (SA/falas). This name sometimes appears with the definite article: i Falas “The Coast” (VT42/15, Ety/PHAL). It sometimes was translated “Western Shore/Coast” (LR/128, Ety/PHAL), but the word for “west” did not appear in its Sindarin name.

Conceptual Development: This name first appeared as N. Falas in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (SM/121, LR/128), and in The Etymologies already had the derivation given above (Ety/PHAL).

falas

coast

falas (pl. felais) (beach, shore, strand, line of surf, foaming shore; the word was especially used of the western seaboard of Beleriand). (VT42:15)

falas

coast

(pl. felais) (beach, shore, strand, line of surf, foaming shore; the word was especially used of the western seaboard of Beleriand). (VT42:15)