Rak Harmal

Rak Harmal (Har. "Harmal Street") was the Name for the great trade route leading eastward from Amrûn along the Ode Pezar through the Pezarsan to Lurmsakûn, on the edge of the Khand escarpment. From here the main caravan road continued southeast along the foothills of the Ered Harmal to the Khy lands of southern Middle-Earth. Other trails led eastward into the Khey lands beyond the mountains, while roads dating back to the Second Age passed over the escarpment into Khand. The Númenóreans first built up this road in the late-Second Age, when Ûvatha the Ringwraith was King of the Ioriags and ruler over later Lurmsakûn. At this time they named the stone-paved road they built the "Ranta Kha-ôn". For their purposes, the old name had outlasted the empire that inspired it. The Harûze paved the section of this road that passed through Pezarsan in the early Third Age and renamed it the Rak Harmal.