Echoing Hills

A range of northern mountains known in Elvish as Ered Lómin. They ran southwards down the western borders of Hithlum and Dor-lómin, and were broken halfway along their length by the entry of the Sea through the Firth of Drengist.

The Echoing Hills took their name from their proximity to Lammoth, which lay between the mountains and the Sea. Legend said that when Morgoth returned to Middle-earth, he landed in this place. Threatened by Ungoliant, he gave a great cry, and the echoes of that cry were said to live on among the hills, ready to be awakened by any loud noise made in the region. Indeed, when Fëanor and his followers came ashore in this region, their clamour awoke the echoes of the hills, filling the land with noise and alerting Morgoth to his enemies' arrival in Middle-earth.