Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza

Are you in Aman?

Are you west of, and including, the Ered Luin?

Are you above water in the Third Age?

Are you a populated place?

Are you the straight road?

Are you Harlindon?

Are you an island?

Are you Forlindon?

Are you Ossiriand?

Are you Lindon?

Are you Forlond?

I think you got it, Arothir!

Are you Tol Fuin?

Then my next guess is Himling/Himring

Is it the Blue Mountains themselves?

Are you Dolmed?

Woohoo! I was going through it and thinking "Maybe Dolmed?" a couple of times before but decided on another path.

Let's stay on the geography train!

Where am I?

Aikári Salmarinian wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:26 am.
I'll help out a bit. You're close, Arothir. It is ancient land (lands, woods and river) that survived into the Fourth Age at least. But is known by quite a few names over the eras. I just want the right name *g*. [/color]

Hi! I want to point out that Mount Dolmed does not survive into the Fourth Age in the source list used in this game. Mount Dolmed is also known by one name. There is some speculation that along with the Blue Mountains, Dolmed also survived in some form after the destruction of Beleriand, though there is no evidence of its presence on later maps.

Are you in a forest?

Drifa: On Tolkien Gateway there are other thoughts about it. I had assumed always that the westside of the Ered Luin survived, including Thargelion, the Lanthir waterfalls, the Dwarven towns, mount Rerir and Mount Dolmed, combined into Forlindon. And large parts of Ossiriand into Harlindon. So neither me or Arothir are truly wrong, even you would disagree.

"Some Tolkienists such as Robert Foster and Karen Fonstad speculate that after the War of Wrath Dolmed was destroyed when the Ered Luin were broken and the Gulf of Lune broke through it.[1][2]

However, Ronald E. Kyrmse[3] and later Didier Willis[4] independently noted a prominent unidentified mountain exactly on the location of Dolmed in the map of Beleriand as well as Mount Rerir to the north. This, coupled with a reinterpretation of Tolkien's maps, shows that Dolmed at least partially survived the devastation."

I am in a forest.

Are you in a forest in the Third Age?

I am in a forest.
I am not in a forest in the Third Age.

The source that this game uses:
Who, What, or Where Sources
The Hobbit
The Lord of The Rings
The Silmarillion
The Unfinished Tales
HoM-e (The History of Middle-earth)
Appendices

Are you inhabited?

Are you a building in a forest?

I am in a forest.
I am not in a forest in the Third Age.
I am not inhabited.
I am not a building in a forest

Are you a dark forest?

I am in a forest.
I am not in a forest in the Third Age.
I am not inhabited.
I am not a building in a forest
I am not a dark forest, but I am located in one that one could say became dark.

Are you a stone?

I am in a forest.
I am not in a forest in the Third Age.
I am not inhabited.
I am not a building in a forest
I am not a dark forest, but I am located in one that one could say became dark.
I am not a stone.

Were you ever inhabited?

I am in a forest.
I am not in a forest in the Third Age.
I am not inhabited.
I am not a building in a forest
I am not a dark forest, but I am located in one that one could say became dark.
I am not a stone.
I was never properly inhabited, but I have been camped at.

I am in a forest.
I am not in a forest in the Third Age.
I am not inhabited.
I am not a building in a forest
I am not a dark forest, but I am located in one that one could say became dark.
I am not a stone.
I was never properly inhabited, but I have been camped at.
I am not where Bilbo met the three trolls.

Was there a notable death in the forest?

I am in a forest.
I am not in a forest in the Third Age.
I am not inhabited.
I am not a building in a forest
I am not a dark forest, but I am located in one that one could say became dark.
I am not a stone.
I was never properly inhabited, but I have been camped at.
I am not where Bilbo met the three trolls.
There have been many notable deaths in the forest I am in but the only death at my location is named by a title and not a proper name.

Was the title of this location due to a female death?

I am in a forest.
I am not in a forest in the Third Age.
I am not inhabited.
I am not a building in a forest
I am not a dark forest, but I am located in one that became dark.
I am not a stone.
I was never properly inhabited, but I have been camped at.
I am not where Bilbo met the three trolls.
There have been many notable deaths in the forest I am in but the only death at my location is a person known only by their rank, not by a name.
The title had nothing to do with a female's death.

In retrospect I have reclarified the darkness of the forest and the notable deaths.

Was the rank, Captain?