Seregon

Seregon
Other names	Stone's Blood
Location	Amon Rûdh

Seregon was a plant noted for its deep, blood-red flowers, from which it took its name. It was a plant similar to the stonecrop, which grows in low clumps on the face of rocks, and produces bright clusters of flowers.

Seregon was famously the only plant found on the rocky head of Amon Rûdh; when it was in flower, the head of that hill appeared to be bathed in blood. This proved to be ominous, because it was here that Túrin Turambar's outlaw band were betrayed to the Orcs by Mîm, and their blood ran among the red flowers of the seregon.

[edit] Etymology

The name seregon means "blood of stone" in Sindarin (from sereg = "blood" and gond = "stone").^[1]

[edit] References

1. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 184