Adventures in Eriador - Ruins of Belegost

[Otaku-sempai]

I was reading up about Nogrod and Belegost, the old Dwarf cities of the Blue Mountains that fell at the end of the First Age, and how they were thought to have been drowned beneath the newly created Gulf of Lune. Both cities were to the east of Mount Dolmed, Belegost to the north and Nogrod seven leagues to the south. (Oddly, Karen Wynn Fonstad in The Atlas of Middle-earth placed Belegost 150 miles south of its sister city, which would put its Third Age location deep in the southern range of the Ered Luin).

My best guess places the site of Mount Dolmed just north of the Grey Havens, meaning that the Dwarf city of Nogrod would be beneath the Gulf. However, that places the ruins of Belegost (called Gabilgathol in Khuzdul and also Mickleburg) some 50 miles north-west of the Havens. However, it might be interesting to learn why Fonstad relocated Belegost, was it a mistake or did she have a reference that superceded the description in the publised version of The Silmarillion?

This could be an interesting quest for a largely Dwarven party. The object might be to attempt to recover the great pearl Nimphalos, given by the Elvenking Thingol as payment for the delving of Menegroth. The party might even be charged with assessing the possibility of reoccupying the old city.

Comments? Suggestions?

[Mim]

I agree - this could be a great adventure. If you want to see how someone interpreted it, take a look at The Hall of Fire, Issue 32:

http://halloffire.org/2006/