Tower Hills of Emyn Beraid

When the Gulf of Lhûn was formed by the great cataclysm that split the Blue Mountains at the end of the Elder Days, a portion of the range's foothills were severed from the rest. Since they were east of the mountains, the shifted cluster of hills were declared part of the lands of the Siranna Elves. Gil-galad, nevertheless, built one of his twin ports on the western side of the hills, and placed three beacon towers on their crests. They became known as the Emyn Beraid (S. "Tower Hills"). The Númenórean Faithful, with the permission of Gilgalad, used the towers on the Emyn Beraid as observatories. Elendil modified the tallest of them, Elostirion, permitting it to house a Palantir. The Stone looked only westward over the seas, towards drowned Westernesse and Valinor; both Elves and Dúnedain had the use of it. In negotiations that set the boundaries of Lindon and Arnor at the beginning of the Third Age, the Siranna Elvish province of Siragalë was joined to the Dúnadan Realm. The Tower Hills became a religious refuge for the more aesthetic of the Dúnedain. The Kings, as time passed, visited the Palantir less and less, and many forgot that the Seeing-stone was there. In later Years The next mention of the Tower Hills in Dúnadan lore occurs when Aranarth bids his companions to take the oath that forms the Rangers of the North. Their vows ate spoken in Elostirion before the one remaining Palantir in the North. There being nothing in the Emyn Beraid of practical use to the surviving Dúnedain, the hills are left to slip into legend. As more and more of the Sirannar flee on the ships bearing the Elves over the sea, Old Sylvana, between the western boundary of the Shire and the Tower Hills, is gradually emptied of population. Aragorn II, who travels most places in Middle-earth, knows this well; in consultation with the Lords of the Elves, he grants the abandoned land to the Hobbits as the Westmarch of the Shire in F. A. 31. Fastred Fairbairn and his wife Elanor Gardner, the daughter of Master Samwise, are made Wardens of the Westmarch. They live in the new village of Undertowers, where the Menatar Romen climbs the eastern slopes of the Tower Hills, passing within sight of Elostirion.

Founders

• Círdan Nówë

Type

Military, Camp

Population

8,000

Location under

Mithlond "Grey Havens"

Owner/Ruler

Círdan Nówë

Owning Organization

Lindon: Mithlond