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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
Division
Culture
Outflow
Teiglin flowed on from beneath its Ravines to meet Sirion
Pronunciation
ka'bed nae'ramarth (ae is pronounced like the English word 'eye')
Meaning
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Cabed Naeramarth

The Leap of Dreadful Doom

Map of Cabed Naeramarth, the Leap of Dreadful Doom

The river chasm known in earlier times as Cabed-en-Aras, the Deer's Leap, because it was narrow enough for a deer to leap from cliff to cliff across the River Teiglin that flowed below. It was here that Túrin crossed the river and succeeded in slaying the Dragon Glaurung, but while he lay insensible after that feat, his wife Níniel learned from the dying monster that she was Túrin's own sister Niënor. In dismay at this dreadful news, she cast herself into the chasm and was carried away by the river, and so the ravine gained its new name of Cabed Naeramarth, the 'Leap of Dreadful Doom'.


Notes

1

At the end of the First Age, almost all of Beleriand was lost beneath the inrushing Great Sea. A very few locations survived as islands, however, and one of these was Tol Morwen, on which the memorial of the Stone of Hapless remained above the waves. This Stone lay near to Cabed Naeramarth, and so conceivably this part of the Ravines of Teiglin might also have survived as part of the island of Tol Morwen.

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