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Dates
Probably1 destroyed at the end of the First Age
Location
On the Ravines of Teiglin on the western borders of the Forest of Brethil
Race
Men
Division
Edain
Culture
People of Haleth
Other names
The Deer's Leap; later called Cabed Naeramarth, the Leap of Dreadful Doom

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  • Updated 14 February 2014
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Cabed-en-Aras

‘The Deer’s Leap’

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The Deer's Leap; a narrow point in the Ravines of Teiglin. It was here that Túrin Turambar slew the dragon Glaurung.


Notes

1

While most of Beleriand was lost under the Great Sea at the First Age's end, a very few regions survived as islands, and one of these held the Stone of the Hapless near Cabed-en-Aras. It is possible, therefore, that some part of the ravine may have survived as part of Tol Morwen (as the later island was known).

See also...

Cabed Naeramarth, Deer’s Leap, Leap of Dreadful Doom, Rainy Stair, Ravines of Teiglin

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