Ered Luin

And it's roughly about 600 years of war between the elves and Morgoth or Melkor, the fallen Valar, uh, little G god.

And it's fought over three stolen jewels in a country that no longer exists, Beleriand, because, uh, at the end of the series, spoilers, the sea comes in, uh, swallows it whole, and turns, uh, the Ered Luin, the Blue Mountains, into fantastic beachfront property, which is, uh, I think the plot of one of the "Superman" films.

So were they derivative of Tolkien? Perhaps.

So this is episode one of six, uh, a- and this is the, the starter episode.

We read this in Volume 12 of The History of Middle-Earth, The Peoples of Middle-Earth.

Many of the forest dwellers on the shorelands south of the Ered Luin, especially in Minhiriaf, were, as later historians, recognized the kin of the House of Haleth.

In the Third Age, their survivors were the people known in Rohan as the Dunlendings.

So what happened that made these people, once related to one of the three houses of the Edain that would eventually become the Numenoreans, turn on the men of the West? Well, from their perspective, it was a long series of injustices, and it began with the actions of Numenor.

And you might think, okay, that's fine, they could have traded from Khazad-dûm up to the Woodland Realm, except that we read in the appendices about Khazad-dûm this.

After the end of the First Age, the power and wealth of Khazad-dûm was much increased, for it was enriched by many people and much lore and craft when the ancient cities of Nogrod and Belagost in the Blue Mountains were ruined in the breaking of Thangorodrim.

The power of Moria endured throughout the dark years and the dominion of Sauron, for though Eregion was destroyed and the gates of Moria were shut, the halls of Khazad-dûm were too deep and strong and filled with a people too numerous and valiant for Sauron to conquer from without.

Thus, its wealth remained long unravished, though its people began to dwindle.

A region of the Westlands.

Um, uh, Lindon was the name of Ossiriand, a region west of the Blue Mountains in eastern Beleriand.

After the Deluge of Beleriand and the War of Wrath, Lindon became the westernmost land of the continent of Middle Earth.

Um, oh, I'm sorry.

Here we go.

So yeah.

Lindon is, Lindon is the region to the west of the Blue Mountains.

And I was, [sighs] what was, I was thinking of the region west of the Misty Mountains, um, that once upon a time was, it's, I was thinking of Eregion, um, or Hollin.