For this reason they were accustomed to pass east along the Great Road, as they had done for long years before we came to the Shire.
Beyond the Lune was Elvish country, green and quiet, where no Men went but Dwarves dwelt, and still dwell, in the east side of the Blue Mountains, especially in those parts south of the Gulf of Lune, where they have mines that are still in use. Eriador and its environs.Eriador was of old the name of all the lands between the Misty Mountains and the Blue in the South it was bounded by the Greyflood and the Glanduin that flows into it above Tharbad.Īt its greatest Arnor included all Eriador, except the regions beyond the Lune, and the lands east of Greyflood and Loudwater, in which lay Rivendell and Hollin.
