Ethir Baranduin

Ethir Baranduin once belonged to the Gwathuirim, in the second Age they fought the Númenoreans and fled to Eryn Vorn.When the war between the Elves and the Dark Lord — whom that people served — was over the Númenoreans withdrew from this lands and even later when Elendil the Tall founded Arnor he did not take control of Eryn Vorn as he pitied the forest-dwellers, it was said. After his day the Arnorians grew weak and the wood-dwellers began raiding the lands of inland Cardolan whose Lords fortified the Ethir and built towers along the river.In the fourth Age Ethir Baranduin became the site of a small but thriving town of the same name, founded under King Elessar and settled by fisherfolk and merchants, some of them descending from colonists of Pinnath Gelin, others from the Mebden and Daen Fiadach.