Editing Beleriand (section)

=== Naming ===

[[File:Idylls of the King 18 (detail).jpg|thumb|upright|Tolkien borrowed the [[Arthurian legend|Arthurian]] place-name [[Brocéliande]], an enchanted forest, for an early version of Beleriand.<ref name="Fimi 2007"/> Detail of 1868 illustration by [[Gustave Doré]] ]]

{{further|England in Middle-earth}}

Beleriand had many different names in Tolkien's early writings, including [[Brocéliande|Broceliand]], the name of an enchanted forest in medieval romance,<ref name="Fimi 2007">{{cite journal |last=Fimi |first=Dimitra |author-link=Dimitra Fimi  |title=Tolkien's 'Celtic type of legends': Merging Traditions |journal=[[Tolkien Studies]] |volume=4 |year=2007 |pages=53–72 |doi=10.1353/tks.2007.0015|s2cid=170176739 }}</ref> Golodhinand, Noldórinan ("valley of the Noldor"), Geleriand, Bladorinand, Belaurien, Arsiriand, Lassiriand, and Ossiriand (later used for the easternmost part of Beleriand).<ref group=T>{{Harvnb|Tolkien|1986|loc="Commentary on Canto I"}}</ref>

One of Beleriand's early names was Ingolondë, a play on "England", part of Tolkien's long-held but ultimately unsuccessful aim to create what Shippey calls "a mighty patron for his country, a foundation-myth more far-reaching than [[Hengist and Horsa|Hengest and Horsa]], one to which he could graft his own stories."{{sfn|Shippey|2005|pp=349–351}} Tolkien's aim had been to root his [[England in Middle-earth|mythology for England]] in the scraps of names and myths that had survived, and to situate it in a land in the northwest of the continent, by the sea.{{sfn|Shippey|2005|pp=349–351}}