Serelond


 * "We may be forgiven for our initial '
 * assumption that this name, a conjoining of Quenya and Sindarin
 * elements, was another fabrication of the Cartographers' Guild; 
 * but further investigation has shown that the name as it appears
 * on His Majesty's map is genuine. The village was originally given 
 * the Quenya name Sérelondë "Haven of Rest", no doubt because
 * Tar-Aldarion once spent the night there. The Quenya name has 
 * been somewhat modified through the years to more closely resemble
 * the phonology of Sindarin. The true Sindarin form, however, 
 * would be Lond Sîdh.
 * -Findegil of Gondor

This town was typical of most towns in Pinnath Gelin. It Was situated next to a small river flowing from the Ered Nimrais into Pinnath Gelin. The population amounted to some 1,300, and was engaged in small-time industry and some local trade. Nearly everyone also had a plot outside the town, where they grew what was needed for the daily upkeep. Artisans and merchants also had a cow or two grazing on the town common, and perhaps a few pigs and some sheep. Generally, the difference between the townspeople and wealthier farmers in the surrounding villages Was not that large. The town hall had three stories, a local noble had built a townhouse with two stories, and two wealthier merchants had two-story houses; otherwise, there were only small houses of stone. There was a market day once a week, when peasants from the surrounding villages came to sell farm surplus and buy salt and manufactured goods they could not make themselves. There was also a small fair once a year, when traders from other parts of Pinnath Gelin and sometimes even from Lond Galen arrived to hawk their goods.