Hûb Helcharaes

The Lossoth dwell on both shores of this bay, taking whales, seal, and fish from it when they can.Umli (Half-dwarves) dwell on the eastern shore,around the estuary of the Lókosir. Cardolani and Riverman whalers came here in the summer months before the Witch-king brought down cold from the north and made the voyages too dangerous. It is said that it was also the Witch-king who summoned the Uidhrog (S. “Demon-whale”) to plague mortals, but the Lossoth say that the Uidhrog is older than any mortal magic.The Lossoth of the northern shore of this gulf make their sod and snow huts close to its shores. A village of this people is immortalized by a parchmentkept in the collection of the Kings of Arthedain:''Lateand sad it was that I learned this caution of the Hemoel Lossoth: no man is let out unguarded in snow weather in this season. All of our company are now lost to the icewoman save my husband. I have seen them standing un-cloaked in the snow; pale, tormented, guarding their new mistress with her lace gowns and her fine white teeth. By the grace and guile of my ancestors, she will not have Thorluin while I breath.''-Ammerethiel Foros, the inscriber of the parchment, seems to have brought it back to Arthedain in the 12th century, but no furtherdetails are recorded.