The Angle of Rhudaur
Sites in the Angle and Trollshaws: 1. Tuin Bod; 2. Harnalda; 3. Rilineldor; 4. Dunnish Track; 5. Mag Tuireadh; 6. Sirtathar; 7. War-Camp; 8. Tirthon; 9. Yfelwood; 10. Blogath's Vale; 11. Last Bridge; 12. Dol Coldirith; 13. Bar-en-Hirgûlor; 14. Cromm Bráighe
The thin strip of fertile land that stretched along the rivers Mitheithel and Bruinen, from Tharbad all the way to the Trollshaws, was called the Hoarwell Marches by the soldiers and politicians of Eriador. It had been the focus of economic and military activity in eastern Eriador for thousands of years. The northern end of the Marches was the Dor-en-Egladil, or "Angle," of southern Rhudaur. The Mitheithel and Bruinen both left the fells, the broken country lying along the western flanks of the Misty Mountains, and wandered some sixty miles through rolling country before merging at Fennas Drûnîn. Along their banks and in some of the small valleys inland farming was possible, and so the "angle" between the two rivers had been fought over since the Elder Days.
Traditionally, the Hillmen and anyone controlling the upper Gwathló Basin raided downriver, pillaging the farming communities of the southern marches; the civilized peoples campaigned upriver to punish the raiders and to conquer their lands for settlement. The Angle had changed hands repeatedly over the last five hundred years as the fortunes of the Rhudaurrim and Cardolandrim waxed and waned. Faerdor, at the southern end of the Hoarwell Marches, had endured the brunt of repeated raids by the Hillmen into Cardolan as well as Orc raids from the Lone Lands. Consequently, they cooperated with the lords of the Dor-en-Egladil and supported their efforts to remain independent. In the 1630's, before the Great Plague struck, self-proclaimed King Ervegil Stonearm of Rhudaur and Broccach, the Targadh-Arm of the Hillmen, campaigned to overrun the Angle and drove south into Faerdor. Baumyakund, General of the Faerdorrim throughout this period, led the fight against them and managed to restrain their depredations. In the aftermath of the Great Plague, he restored two keeps of the central Angle, Tuin Bod and Galadharn, to Eriadoran control.
Places of Note[]
Abandoned Burrow Cuan-lûth Refuge Eitheldir Fernbrake Cot Gaerond Glynafon Ost Waeren Stonecots Tham Lumren Thelgarth Tornhad
Groups[]
Defenders of the Angle Rangers of the North Vulvsagias
References[]
- MERP: Dark Mage of Rhudaur
- MERP: Arnor