Middle-earth Atlas

Places in Middle-earth

From the Shire to Mordor, explore 22 featured places and their histories.

The Shire · house

Bag End

The Baggins family smial dug into the Hill above Hobbiton by Bungo Baggins around T.A.

Mordor · fortress

Barad-dûr

The Dark Tower, Sauron's stronghold and seat of power, rising from the Plateau of Gorgoroth east of Mount Doom beneath a spur of the Ered Lithui.

Bree-land · town

Bree

The chief town of Bree-land, built on and about Bree-hill at the crossing of the East Road and the Greenway, with some hundred stone houses of Men and many Hobbit-holes on the hillside.

Mordor · pass

Cirith Ungol

The 'Pass of the Spider', a high secret pass over the Ephel Dúath from the Morgul Vale into Mordor, north of the Morgul Pass.

Dale · city

Dale

A town of Men in the valley below Erebor's Front Gate, grown prosperous as Dwarves reopened the mountain and its markets flourished on trade in metalwork and Long Lake produce.

Gondor · town

Dol Amroth

The chief city of Belfalas, seat of its Princes who claim descent from the Elves of Edhellond, on a headland above the Bay of Belfalas.

Rohan · town

Edoras

Capital of Rohan since the days of King Brego, built upon a green hill where the White Mountains meet the plain at the mouth of Harrowdale.

Erebor · mountain

Erebor

A great isolated peak on Mirkwood's eastern edge, delved by Durin's Folk from T.A.

Dale · town

Esgaroth

A town of Men built on great piles driven into the Long Lake, connected to shore by a single bridge, ruled by an elected Master.

Fangorn · forest

Fangorn Forest

An ancient, dark forest at the southern feet of the Misty Mountains, all that remained by the Third Age of the great woods that once covered Eriador.

Lindon · port

Grey Havens

The great Elven haven at the head of the Gulf of Lune, seat of Círdan the Shipwright, from which ships bearing the Three Rings' keepers and the Ring-bearers sail west over the Sea.

Rohan · fortress

Helm's Deep

A narrow, high-walled ravine cutting into the White Mountains in the Westfold, named for King Helm Hammerhand who took refuge here in the Long Winter.

The Shire · village

Hobbiton

A prosperous village in the Westfarthing built along the Water below the Hill, on whose slope stands Bag End.

Rohan · fortress

Isengard

A great circular fortress made by the Men of Númenor within the ring of Nan Curunír to guard the Gap of Rohan, later given over to the Wizard Saruman as its keeper.

Lothlórien · realm

Lothlórien

The hidden Elven realm between the Celebrant and the Anduin, ruled by Celeborn and Galadriel from Caras Galadhon beneath golden-leaved mallorn trees, protected by Galadriel's power from Sauron's sight.

Mordor · city

Minas Morgul

The Dead City: once Minas Ithil, Tower of the Rising Moon, built by Isildur as Gondor's eastern fortress in a valley of the Ephel Dúath facing Minas Anor.

Gondor · city

Minas Tirith

The capital of Gondor since Osgiliath's ruin, a seven-tiered white city built into the root of Mount Mindolluin, crowned by the Citadel and the White Tower of Ecthelion.

Misty Mountains · mine

Moria

The greatest mansion of the Dwarves, delved by Durin beneath the Misty Mountains.

Mordor · mountain

Mount Doom

The volcano of Mordor, standing alone on the Plateau of Gorgoroth west of Barad-dûr.

Eriador · hall

Rivendell

'The Last Homely House East of the Sea', Elrond Half-elven's hidden refuge in a deep valley of the Loudwater beneath the Misty Mountains, founded in S.A.

The Shire · region

The Shire

The homeland of the Hobbits, a fertile agricultural country in north-western Eriador between the Far Downs and the Brandywine River, settled in T.A.

Eriador · ruin

Weathertop

The southernmost and greatest of the Weather Hills, once crowned by a watch-tower of Arnor holding one of the palantíri, raised not long after Elendil founded the North-kingdom.

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