Places in Middle-earth
Hollin Ridge
Type: Mountains, Hills, Promontories
Region: Arnor/Eriador/Lindon
Meaning: Land of Holly
Other Names The larger area of Hollin was also known as Eregion
Location: An outcrop of the Misty Mountains reaching into Hollin (Eregion). The Fellowship camped here before reaching the doors of Moria.
Description:
The travellers reached a low ridge crowned with ancient holly-trees whose grey-green trunks seemed to have been built out of the very stone of the hills. Their dark leaves shone and their berries glowed red in the light of the rising sun.
Away in the south Frodo could see the dim shapes of lofty mountains that seemed now to stand across the path that the Company was taking. At the left of this high range rose three peaks; the tallest and nearest stood up like a tooth tipped with snow; its great, bare, northern precipice was still largely in the shadow, but where the sunlight slanted upon it, it glowed red.
Map of the central section of the Misty Mountains, showing Hollin Ridge on the north edge of Eregion (Hollin).
Gandalf stood at Frodo's side.... 'We have reached the borders of the country that Men call Hollin; many Elves lived here in happier days, when Eregion was its name. Five-and-forty leagues 1 as the crow flies we have come, though many long miles further our feet have walked. The land and the weather will be milder now, but perhaps all the more dangerous.'
The Fellowship of the Ring, LoTR Book 2, Ch 3, The Ring Goes South
Notes
1 A league is approximately three of our miles.
Unfinished Tales, Part 3, Ch 1, The Disaster of the Gladden Fields: Appendix, Númenórean Linear Measures
Contributors:
docmon, 25 Sept 05
Elena Tiriel 11Jan11
