Lothlann

Lothlann (S. "Plain of Flowers", Q. "Losslatinê") was the region from Dor Maglor to the Bay of Forochel, a vast moor of thistle and scrub. Referred to poetically as ë Lothlann-i-Tirithí from the watch on Angband in the First Age it later watched a grey and breaker-foamed sea, the haunt of whales. The streams of Lothlann were exceptionally cold, because they were fed by melting glaciers of the northern Ered Luin. Once it stretched all the way to Morgoth's fortress, a deceptively beautiful lowland. Morgoth transformed most of it into desert after the battle of Sudden Flame. But some of its vast sublimity had survived in the eves of the Ered Luin, sheltering in the mountains. Here the last representatives of certain fauna and flora of Beleriand persevered, under Elven guardianship. For a time during the First Age the Swarthy Men had made their homes here, until they were resettled to the south in the lands of Thargelion and around Himring. No obvious sign of their homes survived.