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Dorwinion is a warm land of vineyards on the north-western marches of the Sea of Rhûn, known to the north almost entirely through its wine, which came up the rivers to Lake-town and filled the cellars of the Elvenking of Mirkwood. Little else is recorded of it, and its people never appear in the tales.
Dunland is the hilly country at the western feet of the southern Misty Mountains, home of the Dunlendings, a swarthy people of ancient stock who long hated the Rohirrim. Its men followed Wulf against Rohan in T.A. 2758 and Saruman against Helm's Deep in 3019.
The Emerië was the sheep-country of Númenor, a district of green treeless downs in the western Mittalmar. It was the chief pasture of the island, and it is remembered as the place where Erendis withdrew from the court of Tar-Aldarion and brought up their daughter Tar-Ancalimë.
The Enchanted Isles were a chain of islands the Valar set in the sea east of Tol Eressëa when they hid Valinor, wrapped in shadow and a sleep that held any mariner who reached them. Only Eärendil, with the Silmaril, ever passed them from Middle-earth.
Enedwaith is the wide, thinly peopled country between the Greyflood and the Isen, south of Eriador and north of Rohan. Once heavily wooded and later stripped by the Númenóreans, it was crossed by the old road from Tharbad to the Fords of Isen and inhabited on its eastern side by the Dunlendings.
The Entwash was the great river of Rohan, rising in Fangorn Forest and flowing south-east across the plains to join Anduin in a wide marshy delta. It divided the Eastemnet from the Westemnet and gave the Rohirrim their pastures.
The Ered Lithui, the Ash Mountains, were the grey range that walled Mordor on the north, running east from the Black Gate towards Rhûn. Barad-dûr was built on a spur of their southern face.
The Ered Lómin were the Echoing Mountains that ran along the western edge of Hithlum above the sea. Beneath them the Noldor cut the tunnel called the Gate of the Noldor, through which Tuor escaped to the coast.
The Esgalduin was the enchanted river that ran through the middle of Doriath, dividing the beech-forest of Neldoreth from the wood of Region and passing beneath the gates of Menegroth before it joined Sirion.
The Firth of Drengist was the long arm of the sea that cut into the coast between Lammoth and Nevrast, reaching in toward the western mountains of Hithlum. Fëanor's stolen ships were beached and burned at Losgar on its shore.
Forochel is the frozen bay and cape at the far north-western edge of Eriador, home of the Lossoth or Snowmen. Here King Arvedui of Arthedain took refuge after the fall of Fornost in T.A. 1974, and here he drowned in the ice with the two palantíri of the North in the spring of 1975.
The Forostar was the northern promontory of Númenor, the least fruitful of its regions: a windy land of moor, heather and rock, with fir-woods on its lower slopes and the great sea-cliff of Sorontil at its end. Its quarries gave the island its building stone, and its clear air drew the star-watching king Tar-Meneldur.
Gelion was the great river of East Beleriand, longer than Sirion though smaller, rising in two arms at Himring and Mount Rerir and running south to the sea. Ossiriand lay between it and the Blue Mountains, and the Dwarf-road crossed it at Sarn Athrad.
Halifirien was the westernmost of Gondor's beacon-hills, standing in the Firien Wood on the border of Rohan and Gondor. Elendil's tomb once lay hidden on its summit, and there Cirion and Eorl swore the oath that founded the alliance of their two peoples.
Himlad was the cool plain south of the pass of Aglon, between the rivers Aros and Celon, where Celegorm and Curufin kept their people. Aredhel stayed there while seeking her cousins, and it was overrun in the Dagor Bragollach.
The Hyarnustar was the south-western promontory of Númenor, a region of two halves: a stern coast of great sea-cliffs and rocky heights, and a warm dry interior where the vineyards of the island were planted. At its eastern edge the river Siril reached the sea through a wide fen.
The Hyarrostar was the south-eastern promontory of Númenor and the warmest of its regions, a country of many woods. It bore the golden-flowered laurinquë, and Tar-Aldarion planted great forests there to supply timber for the shipyards that carried the Númenóreans to Middle-earth.
Ilmarin was the house of Manwë and Varda on the summit of Taniquetil, the highest point in the world, from which the Elder King watched over Arda and where the Eldar came before him at festival.
Khand was a little-known land south-east of Mordor whose people, the Variags, joined the Wainriders and Haradrim against Gondor in T.A. 1944 and fought for Sauron on the Pelennor Fields.
Lake Evendim, called Nenuial by the Elves, is a great lake in the hills of north-western Eriador, the source of the Brandywine and the site of Annúminas, the first capital of Arnor. Galadriel and Celeborn dwelt beside it for a time in the Second Age before the founding of Eregion.
Lake Helevorn was the deep, dark lake beneath Mount Rerir in the north of Thargelion, on whose shore Caranthir son of Fëanor built his stronghold. It was overrun and defiled in the Dagor Bragollach.
Lake Mithrim was the great lake in the east of Hithlum, beside which the returning Noldor first encamped. Fëanor's followers held its northern shore and Fingolfin's its southern until the two houses were reconciled.
Lammoth was the empty coastal land north of the firth of Drengist, between the sea and the Echoing Mountains. Here Ungoliant tried to hold Morgoth to his bargain and his cry gave the land its name, and here Fingolfin's host came ashore from the Grinding Ice.
Lebennin was the fertile land of five rivers in southern Gondor, between the White Mountains and the mouths of Anduin. Aragorn and the Dead swept through it to Pelargir in March 3019, and its people came up the river with him to the Pelennor Fields.