Daenos

Daenos was technically a border keep of the Arthedain kingdom (that realm  having  reclaimed what land it could  when the kingdom of Rhudaur fell),  though being physically cut off from the home country  except via the  Bruinen to the south.It was strongly built with granite block wall ten feet thick and over 50 feet high.It was  manned by  30-40  regular soldiers of the  army of Arthedain, of whom  20-25 were in the keep at any given time, the rest being on patrol.The keep ws  provisioned to enable them to withstand sieges of over two  months' duration. Set about 35 miles away from Elnost, both holds straddled the  Ornuil Valley,  lying at the  southeastern  ends of the  two  chains of  hills  that  defined the valley.