Aeglir Arvethed

This great, jumbled mass of granite peaks forms the western march of the Bleak Mountains. Over the centuries, the Fire Tundra has made inroads into the western and southern foothills of the Aeglir Arvethed(S. "Unending Peaks"); but travelers should not expect to find respite among these dreadful peaks—the Aeglir Arvethed are just as drear and lifeless as their forbidding parent range, and the dangers of wind and flooding are equally present. Dwarves attempted to establish mining colonies in these mountains late in the Second Age, but the mines proved too difficult and costly to maintain for the meager mineral wealth they yielded. The abandoned mines soon thereafter became heavily infested with Trolls from neighboring Torogmar. It is rumored that somewhere near the center of the Aeglir Arvethed run large, labyrinthine caverns that reach down into the Underdeeps.