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Dry River

Dry River was the name given to the dry bed of what had once been a tributary of the River Sirion rising in the Encircling Mountains. It had joined the Sirion just north of the Ford of Brithiach.[1] At the northern end of its gully lay the entrance to the Hidden City of Gondolin.[2]

[edit] References

  1. J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Map of Beleriand and the Lands to the North"
  2. J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of Beleriand and its Realms"