“…For ten leagues or more it ran from the mountains’ feet and so back again, enclosing in its fence the fields of Pelennor; fair and fertile townlands on the long slopes and terraces falling to the deep levels of the Anduin.” – Red Book of Westmarch The Pelennor Fields (S. “Fenced land”) are the townlands and fields… read more »
War of the First Coalition (Q. “Ohta Minyaheren“) was a legendary and poorly understood conflict that allegedly took part at the end of the Second Age, in the land that later become Gondor. It is only mentioned in three extant manuscripts of anonymous authorship, preserved at the monastery of Durthang: Ohta Minyaheren (OM, “War of… read more »
Lossarnach (“Flowery Arnach”) is a historical region of Gondor and and a large feudal county in southern Anórien. Traditionally, the name Lossarnach referred to the valleys in the south of the White Mountains and their foothills between the rivers Celos and Erui, which once belonged to the native kingdom of Arnach. As a district of… read more »
Calenhad is a small feudal county nestled in the northeastern reaches of Anórien, situated between the steep slopes of the Emyn Thobar massif and the venerable Kingsroad. Calenhad in known for its production of salt, dating back to prehistoric times, and lent its name to the Calenhad culture, an early Second Age settlement linked to… read more »
Rimmon is a feudal county in north-western Anórien and a historical region of Gondor. The name Rimmon is of unknown pre-Númenorean language, and is related to other prehistorical toponyms of the area, such as Eilenaer, Eilenach and Ard-Elmar. Rimmon was the heartland of a homonymous native Gwathuirim kingdom, which was incorporated into Gondor in the… read more »
“I have gazed on the walls of impregnable Anor and ascended barefooted to the Seventh Court where the White Tree of Isildur flowers; I have witnessed the imposing silence on the Hill of Awe, and paid homage to the Shrine of Pride at the Great Tower of Tar-Calion. I have seen the tomb of Ornendil,… read more »
Amon Anwar (S. “Hill of Awe”), originally known as Eilenaer, is a hallowed mountain and pilgrimage site in western Anórien. Amon Anwar and its surrounding Firien Wood is a Royal Forest (or kingswood), belonging to the Gondorian Crown. Mountain of Eilenaer was originally a site of a native Gwathuirim hillfort guarding the western border of… read more »
Dúnamar (S. “Western Settlement”) is a small feudal county in the middle of Anórien, on the west side of the Fionnen river. Its lands were settled by Dúnadan farmers when the lands of native Gwathuirim kingdom of Rimmon were incorporated in Gondor. Many people in the county speak a local dialect of Westron called Nardolic,… read more »