The Encyclopedia of Arda - Amon Dîn (original) (raw)
North and west from Minas Tirith, a low-lying chain of hills ran through the Drúadan Forest in parallel with the eastern White Mountains. Beyond the forest, the easternmost of these hills rose to form a great isolated height north of the Grey Wood and Mindolluin. This was Amon Dîn, the so-called 'Silent Hill'.
To a traveller passing north along the road from Minas Tirith, Amon Dîn would rise to the left after some twenty-five to thirty miles. With a wide view of Anórien, Cair Andros and North Ithilien across the Great River, it was natural that the Gondorians should make it a guard post, and indeed it was fortified from early in Gondor's history.
At some point the camp on Amon Dîn was equipped with a beacon to warn the people of the surrounding country of danger. This was the first of a series of beacons to send warning and call for aid. After that on Amon Dîn, beacons were built on Eilenach and Min-Rimmon, and more beacons were added as the years passed. At the end of the Third Age, a line of seven beacons stretched from Amon Dîn as far west as the Halifirien on the borders of Rohan.
See also...
Beacons of Gondor, Cair Andros, Dîn, East Anórien, Eilenach, Fire-hilltop, Grey Wood, Min-Rimmon, Silent Hill, West Road, White Mountains
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