Iron Mountains

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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.

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.[1]

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.[2]

References

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