Dorthonion

[dawn_felagund]

The barren land of Dorthonion becomes one of the first to fall after the ending of the Siege of Angband, though several brave among Men continued to challenge Morgoth.

Now the forest of Dorthonion rose southward into mountainous moors; and in the east of those highlands there lay a lake, Tarn Aeluin, with wild heaths about it, and all that land was pathless and untamed, for even in the days of the Long Peace none had dwelt there. But the waters of Tarn Aeluin were held in reverence, for they were clear and blue by day and by night were a mirror for the stars; and it was said that Melian herself had hallowed that water in the days of old. Thither Barahir and his outlaws withdrew, and there made their lair, and Morgoth could not discover it.
"Of Beren and Lúthien"