Hollin

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(Gandalf): …There is a wholesome air about Hollin. Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if they once lived there.
“That is true,” said Legolas. “But the Elves of this land were of a race strange to us of the silvan folk, and the trees and grass do not now remember them. Only I hear the grass lament them: deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone. They are gone. They sought the Havens long ago.”
The Fellowship of the Ring, The Ring goes South


The name among Men for the land of Elves known as Eregion, that thrived in the lands west of Khazad-dûm during the early part of the Second Age. The name comes from the great holly trees that grew there.