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The '''Iron Mountains''' or '''Ered Engrin''' were an immense mountain range in the north.
[[File:Sage - Almaren.png|thumb|The crescent of Iron Mountains guarding [[Utumno]] during the [[Spring of Arda]].]]
The '''Iron Mountains''' or '''Ered Engrin''' were an immense mountain range in the north, stretching across [[Middle-earth]] from east to west. In the west it bent north a hundred leagues from reaching [[Helcaraxë]].<ref>{{LR|Quenta}}, p. 259</ref>


Of old the Iron Mountains connected the [[Blue Mountains]] (''[[Ered Luin]]'') of the West to the [[Red Mountains]] (''[[Orocarni]]'') of the East, but in the wars between the [[Valar]] and [[Melkor]] the mountain range was distorted.
Of old the Iron Mountains connected the [[Blue Mountains]] (''Ered Luin'') of the West to the Red Mountains (''[[Orocarni]]'') of the East, but in the wars between the [[Valar]] and [[Morgoth|Melkor]] the mountain range was distorted.


Melkor's great fortresses of [[Angband]] and [[Utumno]] were built in the mountains. North of the range lay the [[Forodwaith]], a region of ever-lasting cold.
Melkor's great fortresses of [[Angband]] and [[Utumno]] were built in the mountains. North of the range lay the regions of ever-lasting cold.


After the [[War of Wrath]] the Iron Mountains were broken and disappeared for a great part of their length. Remnants of the range in the [[Third Age]] included the Mountains of [[Angmar]] in northern [[Eriador]], as well as the [[Ered Mithrin]] and the [[Iron Hills]] of northern [[Wilderland]].
After the [[War of Wrath]] the Iron Mountains were broken and disappeared for a great part of their length.  
==Fate==
Remnants of the range in the East could perhaps be all the northern mountain ranges of [[Eriador]] and [[Rhovanion]]: the [[Mountains of Angmar]], [[Gundabad]], the [[Grey Mountains|Ered Mithrin]], and the [[Iron Hills]], still occupied by [[Orcs]] and [[Dragons]] until the [[Third Age]].<ref>[[Karen Wynn Fonstad]], ''[[The Atlas of Middle-earth]]'' p. 78</ref>


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These mountains, if imagined to belong to a greater range, indeed occupy the same location as the Iron Mountains in Tolkien's map in the [[Ambarkanta]].<ref>{{SM|A4}}</ref>
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Revision as of 17:37, 24 April 2016

The crescent of Iron Mountains guarding Utumno during the Spring of Arda.

The Iron Mountains or Ered Engrin were an immense mountain range in the north, stretching across Middle-earth from east to west. In the west it bent north a hundred leagues from reaching Helcaraxë.[1]

Of old the Iron Mountains connected the Blue Mountains (Ered Luin) of the West to the Red Mountains (Orocarni) of the East, but in the wars between the Valar and Melkor the mountain range was distorted.

Melkor's great fortresses of Angband and Utumno were built in the mountains. North of the range lay the regions of ever-lasting cold.

After the War of Wrath the Iron Mountains were broken and disappeared for a great part of their length.

Fate

Remnants of the range in the East could perhaps be all the northern mountain ranges of Eriador and Rhovanion: the Mountains of Angmar, Gundabad, the Ered Mithrin, and the Iron Hills, still occupied by Orcs and Dragons until the Third Age.[2]

These mountains, if imagined to belong to a greater range, indeed occupy the same location as the Iron Mountains in Tolkien's map in the Ambarkanta.[3]

References

Remnants of Drowned Beleriand
 Isles:  Himring · Tol Fuin · Tol Morwen
Mainland:  Lindon