Minas Brethil

The ruins of Minas Brethil stood in the southwestern comer of Rhudaur, on the east bank of the Mitheithel, with a view of the Hagavorl, the Cardolan border hedge just across the river. It was long the citadel of House Melosse, the last of the old Dunadan noble families to rule in Rhudaur. They were driven off in the late 13th century and their tower destroyed, but the site was so sufficiendy strategic that a new one had always been built there.