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Melian the Maia is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. She appears in The Silmarillion, the epic poem The Lay of Leithian and the novel The Children of Húrin.
Melian is a character of the fantasy book The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Melian may also refer to:
- the adjectival formation of Milos or Melos, a city in Greece
- the Melian dialogue by Thucydides
- Méliane, a character in Tyr et Sidon, ou les funestes amours de Belcar et Méliane by Jean de Schelandre
- Melian Stokes, a character in Pugs and Peacocks by Gilbert Cannan
Usage examples of "melian".
The last time, O Congrio, that I gave a banquet to my friends, when thy vanity did so boldly undertake the becoming appearance of a Melian crane--thou knowest it came up like a stone from AEtna--as if all the fires of Phlegethon had been scorching out its juices.
Girdle of Melian, that so some portion of Sirion which she loved in reverence of Ulmo should be wholly under the power of Thingol.
Then the Sindar received them with joy, and they arose from the darkness of their grief for fallen kin and King and for the departure of Melian.
And as the years passed Melian and her maidens filled the halls with woven hangings wherein could be read the deeds of the Valar, and many things that had befallen in Arda since its beginning, and shadows of things that were yet to be.
The last time, O Congrio, that I gave a banquet to my friends, when thy vanity did so boldly undertake the becoming appearance of a Melian crane—thou knowest it came up like a stone from AEtna—as if all the fires of Phlegethon had been scorching out its juices.