Tolkien visited the temple of Nodens, a place called "Dwarf's Hill" and translated an inscription with a curse upon a ring. It may have inspired his dwarves, Mines of Moria, rings, and Celebrimbor "Silver …

Nodens (also known as Lord of the Great Abyss) is a healing god from Celtic mythology, incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Strange High House in the Mist".

Feb 9, 2025 · Nodens is a Celtic god primarily associated with water, healing, hunting, and the Otherworld. While his genealogy remains somewhat unclear, he is often depicted as a fatherly, …

Apr 5, 2023 · Nodens, also known as Nudens and Nodons, is the Celtic god most commonly associated with healing, sea, hunting, and wealth. In medieval Welsh legends, the god’s name changed over …

Nodens was a god who specialized in mending what was broken and leading the lost out of the fog. Inscriptions left by desperate hands invoke him as a healer, the patron of those seeking not just …

Sep 6, 2024 · Nodens is a Celtic healing god that was worshipped by the Celts of Britain. He is mostly known from the remains of a Romano-Celtic temple at Lydney Park in Gloucestershire.

Nodens, a deity from ancient British and Celtic mythology, holds a unique place among the pantheon of pre-Roman and Romano-British gods. Known under various spellings such as Nodons, Nudens, or …

Although Nodens has co-opted Neptune’s trappings, the Roman sea god is present in his own right in Nodens’ entourage in “The Strange High House in the Mist,” though appears subservient to the Lord …

Nodons, a British (Romano-Celtic) god of healing, is linked to Irish god Nuada Airgedlámh and Welsh god Lludd Llaw Ereint. A significant temple dedicated to Nodons was built in AD 365 at Lydney on …

Tolkien (2007) suggests based on the Irish figure Nuada, who is cognate with Nodens, and the fact that Nodens appears only in Western Britain and not on the continent that Nodens is a Goidelic god, …