West Nether Vales

The desolate plains of the West Nether Vales seem endless on first sight. Even from the heights of the Misty Mountains, the Anduin is only a distant ribbon of silver, and many leagues of emptiness lie in between. The east portion makes for good grazing or farmland, but the farms of the Northmen that once stood here were swallowed up by the grass long ago. The western wold is a landscape of small wooded thickets and limestone hills rising up to the granite of the Misty Mountains.
The Gladden marks the northern border of the West Nether Vales. To the south, the land climbs towards the stony highlands of the Dimrill Dale, or enters the tree-shrouded valley of the Golden Wood where no traveller dares go.

Wildlife

The western region is especially empty of life. A traveller might spot a coney, or a crow, or maybe a sullen bear in one of the little woods. To the east, where the land is richer, there are grazing herds of wild horses and cattle, as well as deer and the wolf packs that prey on them.

Location under

Vales of Anduin