Cirith Aralanthir

"The local mountain-folk allege that Tar-Aldarion himself discovered this pass and its beautiful waterfalls,hence the name "Pass of the Royal Waterfall".This may be so, but we have observed during our travels that the provincials are wont to claim some royal connection for almost every last weed-choked creek and collection of crumbling cow-byres; and had Aldarion actually discovered but half the places claiming this distinction he would have had little time remaining to him for the ruling of Númenór." -Findegil: The Cirith Aralanthir was one of the two mountain passes of Andrast. The pass was named for a series of waterfalls which cascaded down over several hundred feet from a small tarn adjacent to the pass, forming the headwaters of the River Engui (known to local residents as Enqui). Beyond the ridge overlooking the falls, the Cirith Aralanthir continued northwards through an enclosed mountain valley, and thence over an adjoining ridge into the heavily wooded valley of the River Lóreló (which emptied into the Belegaer on the northern side of Andrast).