The Sarn Ford
The Sarn Settlements were a number of small manors and hamlets forming the Sarn Marches, on both sides of the Sarn Ford.The largest settlements were Stonehill, Amon Sarn and Fordhall, in the later Age Cûban.
After the fall of Arthedain, Sarn Ford became the center for a collection of farming villages on the edge of the prairie wilds of Minhiriath.The castle at Iach Sarn crumbled away, and most local Hobbits moved to the Shire.The Sarn settlements, ruled by their own Council of Elders, remained relatively unchanged for the rest of the Third Age.A certain amount of trade came up the Brandywine from Burh Amber , and the Dwarves and the Shire-folk exchanged what few luxury goods they could afford for the trinkets.Troubles with brigands and Orcs sometimes resulted in the Shire-folk and the Rangers of the North sending help southward, but life around Sarn Ford was generally uneventful.During the War of the Ring, Saruman first bought off the leaders of the settlements and then sent in a troop of mercenary soldiers to occupy it.Local forces, led by Thain Paladin Took and Captain Beretar of the Rangers, drove the servants of the White Hand back into the wild.
Inhabitants[]
Beryl Plumwate Breglor Calamy Whittlesbane Celeserwen Cerwiff Gait Chuff Whittlesbane Dainrin Brethil Derdil the Lubber Kirvin Meluial Mereth Sendur Nariel Pirena Polio Hunloy Queneldor Ringlin Rudiger Tanta Dumpling Tirwen Tollanwen
References[]
- MERP:The Shire