Nargothrond ("The great underground fortress on the river Narog") was the stronghold built by Finrod Felagund, delved into the banks of the river Narog in Beleriand. After the Drowning of Beleriand during the War of Wrath, the peak of Himring (also called "Himling", a typographic error) remained above the waves as an island. But in the Battle of Unnumbered Tears the Hill of Himring was taken over by the soldiers of Angband. It was the only fortress to survive the Dagor Bragollach. To the east was Maglor's Gap and Ered Luin to the west the Pass of Aglon, which Curufin and Celegorm guarded. It was the chief stronghold of Maedhros, from which he guarded the northeastern border region that became known as the March of Maedhros. When the Sons of Fëanor went east after Thingol became aware of the Kinslaying, a great fortress was built on the hill of Himring in northeast Beleriand. Hithlum was cold and rainy, but quite fertile. Hithlum was subdivided into Mithrim, where the High Kings of the Noldor had their halls, and Dor-lómin, later a fief of the House of Hador. It was separated from Beleriand proper by the Ered Wethrin mountain chain, and was named after the sea mists which formed there at times: Hithlum means "Mist-shadow". Hithlum is the region north of Beleriand near the icy Helcaraxë. Its destruction is told in The Fall of Gondolin.
Gondolin was a secret city of Elves in the north of Beleriand, built by Turgon and his Elves, and hidden from the Dark Lord Morgoth by mountains. When the Havens were later destroyed, Círdan's people fled to the Mouths of Sirion and the Isle of Balar. The Havens were besieged during the First Battle of Beleriand.
They lived in two havens, Eglarest at the mouth of the River Nenning, and Brithombar at the mouth of the River Brithon. The Falas was the realm of Círdan the Shipwright and his Sindarin Elves in the years of Starlight and the First Age of Sun. Among the First Age events that occurred in Doriath is the tale of Beren and Lúthien from The Lays of Beleriand, parts of The Children of Húrin and The Silmarillion. Eärendil and Elwing's sons, Elros and Elrond, were born in Arvernien.ĭoriath is the realm of the Sindar, the Grey Elves of King Thingol in Beleriand. Their son Eärendil Half-elven, married the Half-elven Elwing, Dior's daughter. The first rulers of this region were Tuor of the Edain and Idril of Gondolin. The Mouths were the refuge of the remnants of Eldar and Edain of Beleriand after the Nírnaeth Arnoediad and the Sack of Menegroth. Arvernien Īrvernien is the southernmost region of Beleriand, bordered on the east by the Mouths of Sirion.
In Unfinished Tales, the name instead refers to the acoustic properties of the location and the natural reverberations they cause. Ungoliant lusted for the Silmarils and attacked Morgoth to get them he let out a great cry, heard across the land. The Silmarillion explains it is so named because it is where Morgoth and Ungoliant fled after the darkening of Valinor and Morgoth's theft of the Silmarils. In the northwest of Beleriand was a region called Lammoth, "the Great Echo". In volume IV of the History of Middle-earth are the early maps of Beleriand, then still called Broseliand, showing the elevation of the land by use of contour lines. To the east of the Long Wall, was the River Gelion and its six tributaries draining the Ered Luin, in an area known as Ossiriand, "Land of Seven Rivers". The river sank into the ground at the Fens of Sirion, and re-emerged below the Andram at the Gates of Sirion.
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Crossing it east to west was a series of hills and a sudden drop in elevation known as Andram, the Long Wall. The River Sirion, the chief river of Beleriand, running north to south, divided it into West and East Beleriand. In the far north were the Iron Mountains (Ered Engrin), containing Morgoth's fortresses of Thangorodrim and Angband. The land of Nevrast in the northwest was sometimes considered part of Beleriand. To the west and south it had a long shore with the Great Sea Belegaer, to the north were the highland regions of Hithlum, Dorthonion and the hills of Himring, to the east the Ered Luin reached nearly to the sea. Beleriand was originally inhabited by Elves, and later also by Men and Dwarves. Originally, the name Beleriand belonged only to the area around the Bay of Balar, but in time, the name was applied to the entire land. The Ered Luin on the right of the map are on extreme left of the map of Middle-earth, marking the part of Beleriand not destroyed at the end of the First Age.
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