- The latter element in this name "Sward of Beeches" was feren "of beeches. beechen", :which as we have noted elsewhere has fallen out of use in Minas Tirith.For further
- explication of this word and its relationship to other Sindarin
- forms, we would respectfully refer His Majesty to our comments
- on the name Lond Feren.
Parth Feren was a wide, grassy plain in western Anfalas which, during the Second Age, was once a vast beech forest. This was the principal source of timber for the Númenórean seafarers who brought their ships into the Lond Feren at the mouth of the Lefnui. By the time of the Downfall, nearly all of this beech forest had been destroyed. With the sudden cessation of Númenórean exploitation in S.A, 3319, the trees of Parth Feren began to replenish their numbers, but the beech woods of western Anfalas were never to regain their ancient dominion over the land, and the greater part of Parth Feren remained open grassland throughout the third Age. This was due primarily to the emergence of the Mesta in the Pinnath Gelin, as the sheltered vale of Parth Feren began to be used as an annual wintering site for the shepherds and their flocks.