Eriador is the large region in the north-west of Middle-earth inhabited by all the Free peoples, being the location of many of the most important events of the Second and Third Ages. By the end of the Third Age its main inhabitants were Hobbits of the Shire and the surrounding lands.

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"Morgoth held hurled aloft Grond, Hammer of the Underworld, and swung it down like a bolt of thunder. But Fingolfin sprang aside, and Grond rent a mighty pit in the earth, whence smoke and fire darted. Many times Morgoth essayed to smite him, and each time Fingolfin leaped away, as a lightning shoots from under dark cloud; and he wounded Morgoth with seven wounds, and seven times Morgoth gave a cry of anguish, whereat the hosts of Angband fell upon their faces in dismay, and the cries echoed in the Northlands."

― J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin"

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On Earth

• 1961 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Rayner Unwin.
• 1972 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 336.
• 1992 - Second day of The Tolkien Phenomenon in Turku, Finland.
• 2008 - The RiffTrax commentary of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is released online.
• 2011 - Update 3: Lost Legends of Eriador, the third update of The Lord of the Rings Online is released.
• 2013 - The Fall of Arthur is published.

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