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Dates
Location
Running west to east through the northern parts of Mirkwood
Race
At one time occupied by Elves1
Source
The Enchanted River rose in the north of these hills
Other names
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Mountains of MirkwoodThe central highlands of Middle-earth’s greatest forest![]() In the central parts of northern Mirkwood, north of the Old Forest Road, lay a scattered range of hills. A jumble of fir-covered, low-lying hills to the west rose to reach greater heights in the east, together forming a range nearly one hundred miles in length. Historically, the Second Age saw these mountains inhabited by Silvan Elves, who knew the range as the Emyn Duir, the Dark Mountains. During the Third Age, the power of Sauron spread across the Mountains as it did throughout the rest of the Forest, and they became populated by hideous creatures. Just as Greenwood the Great was renamed Mirkwood at this time, its northern hills also took on a new name: Emyn-nu-Fuin, the Mountains of Mirkwood. Notes
See also...Dark Mountains, Emyn Duir, Emyn-nu-Fuin, Enchanted River, Forest Road Indexes: About this entry:
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