Rast Rhaen


 * "We hired a ferry to hear us across the
 * estuary of Lond Feren, and upon reaching the western shore we 
 * inquired of the ferryman, a toothless sniggering gaffer, what might 
 * Be the swiftest way to Rast Hwarin, the Crooked Cape. He
 * replied, after much additional sniggering, that he knew of no place
 * Bearing that name, but if we wished to go to Rast Rhaen instead 
 * we were already standing on it. We regret to inform His Majesty
 * that the name Rast Hwarin on His Majesty's map is another
 * spurious mixed form contrived by the Cartographers' Guild,
 * conjoining Sindarin rast "cape" and Quenya hwarin "crooked".
 * The local peasantry refer to it by the purely Sindarin form Rast
 * Rhaen, which is of the same meaning." 

-Findegil of Gondor

Rast Rhaen was the rocky point that divided the peninsula of Andrast from the outflow of the River Lefnui in Anfalas. Both Rast Rhaen proper and the chain of islets that extended out from it into the Bay of Belfalas were uniformly defined by tall cliffs with no safe landings. To the west, the line of the cape and its broken islets formed the Nén Hwarin of Andrast. From a navigational standpoint, Rast Rhaen was an obstacle to be circumvented, because of the shoals that were scattered amid the waters between the cape and islets. A Gondorian fortress was perched upon the tip of the cape itself, serving as the southernmost defense of Lond Feren. The fortress' garrison was originally under the authority of the Hando of Anfalas at Annúlond, but became the seat of an independent potentate after T.A. 2050.