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Location
A mountain range running north to south, dividing Beleriand from Eriador
Settlements
Belegost, Nogrod
Important peaks
Mount Dolmed, Mount Rerir
Pronunciation
e'red loo'in
Meaning
'Blue Mountains'
Other names
Blue Mountains, Ered Lindon, Western Mountains

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  • Updated 1 February 2007
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Ered Luin

The Blue Mountains

"...and they climbed the heights of Ered Luin and looked eastward in wonder, for wild and wide it seemed to them were the lands of Middle-earth."
Quenta Silmarillion 13,
Of the Return of the Noldor

The Elves' name for the Blue Mountains, the broken range that separated Lindon in the west from Eriador in the east.


See also...

Ambaróna, Balin, Blue Mountains, Dwarves of the Blue Mountains, Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain, East End, Ered Lindon, Green-elves, Hadhodrond, Laiquendi, Longbeards, Men of Eriador, Mount Dolmed, Mountains of Lune, River Brilthor, [See the full list...]

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