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==Etymology==
The name ''Foen'' signified "Long Sight" due to its height. It was stated in a philological fragment of an uncertain date that Dorthonion "''was called also '''Taur-na-Foen''', the Forest of the Foen''".<ref>{{WJ|Beleriand}}, p. 187, Note 32</ref><ref>{{PE|21}}, p. 79</ref>

In the ''[[The Etymologies|Etymologies]]'' appears the [[Noldorin]] word ''foen'', meaning "radiant, white".<ref>{{LR|Etymologies}}, p. 381 (root PHAY-)</ref>

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