The Carrock

The Carrock is a huge rock that sits in the middle of the Anduin, a short distance west of Beorn’s House. The river flows around it on both sides, but a series of huge stepping stones leads to the muddy eastern shore. A small shallow cave bores into one side of the rock, next to a worn set of steps leading up to the flat surface above.
The Carrock is a sacred place to the Beornings. Ceremonies and meetings are held there; trials, marriages, funerals, councils of war and celebrations of good fortune. The rock is big enough to hold a few dozen people, which is enough for every Beorning settlement to send a representative but small enough so that everyone can be heard.
It is also a place of power. The roots of the Misty Mountains break through the mantle of the soil here. To stand atop the Carrock is to draw on the old power of the world, the wild nameless wilderness that existed before the Elves awoke in days of old.

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East Middle Vales