The Long Barrows

Illustration: Alex Lioce, posted in User blog:Alex Lioce/Invasion of the Barrow Downs

The Northmen of old laid their kings to rest in the Long Barrows. These mounds, crowned in simbelmyne, the white Evermind flower, hold the honored dead from the earliest days. It is said that the oldest mound is the tomb of a great lord who led his people out of the north to settle along the Anduin and was counted among the Wise. Atop

the barrows is a complicated arrangement of earthworks and standing stones. Those who can understand the movement of the heavens say that these stones form an astronomical calendar, and that the changes of the seasons and the turning of the years can be predicted by studying the stones and the shadows they cast upon the land. At times of turmoil, the stones may even be used to predict the future by those with the lore to read them.

Geography

The land is characterized by periodic hills topped with standing stones.
Type
Rolling Hills
Location under