Rúhónir

The Rúhónir (S. "Heart[land] of the Wild Men") was a tributary stream of the upper Lefnui in Hairaverkien. Unnavigable and easily forded, the stream Was sacred to the Daen Lintis of the region, for they held it to be the source of the Lefnui, said in Daen legend to have been magically called forth from the earth by the ancient Drûghu in Imlad Arheledh (which was, indeed, one of the Rúhónir's sources). This legend led the Dúnedain of Anfalas to conjecture that the region must once have been inhabited by large numbers of "Drúedain" (hence its name). The other source of the Rúhónir lay in the White Mountains, where a pass joined the upper Lefnui vale to the Enedhwaith beyond.