Dates

Destroyed at the end of the First Age

Location

Running westwards along the southern fringes of Ossiriand

Settlements

Flowed around Tol Galen, the later home of Beren and Lúthien

Source

The southwestern slopes of Ered Luin

Tributaries

None

Outflow

Into the River Gelion

Pronunciation

a'doorant

Meaning

'Double course'¹

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River Adurant

Southernmost of the tributaries of Gelion

Years of the TreesFirst AgeISecond AgeIIThird AgeIIIFourth AgeIV

Map of the River Adurant

The Seven Rivers of Ossir

The southernmost of the seven rivers of Ossiriand, in which was the island of Tol Galen.

Notes

1	The name of this river came from the fact that midway along its course, it split into two streams to form a large river island, Tol Galen. The two arms of the river then rejoined as it flowed on to the meet the Gelion to the west.

See also...

Celegorm, Green Isle, Land of Seven Rivers, Lanthir Lamath, Lúthien Tinúviel, River Duilwen, Seven Rivers of Ossir, Star-spray, Tol Galen

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