The northernmost of the rivers that flowed through Ossiriand, along the northern bank of which lay the Dwarf-road from the Blue Mountains. It was renamed Rathlóriel ('Goldenbed') after the sinking of the treasure of Doriath there.
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Actually, the course of the Ascar in the First Age seems closely comparable with the much wider and more extensive Gulf of Lhûn of later Ages. After the Great Sea swallowed much of Beleriand in the War of Wrath, it seems to have followed the course of Ascar, and then broken through the Blue Mountains to form the Gulf. From a certain perspective, then, Ascar wasn't so much destroyed at the end of the First Age as greatly expanded to form a wide inlet of the Sea.
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