The wide northern land of Hithlum was protected from east and south by a long curving mountain range known as Ered Wethrin. Near Amon Darthir, one of the most prominent peaks of the southern part of the range, a spur of mountains split away from the main line of Ered Wethrin and reached out into the plains of Hithlum for fifty miles or more. The shorter range was known as the Mountains of Mithrim, and it divided the southern part of Hithlum into two smaller regions. To the east was Mithrim with its great lake, after which the mountains were named, while to the west lay the land of Dor-lómin.
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Our few references to the caves of Androth give very little information about their precise location. The available evidence, though, seems to make it inevitable that they lay somewhere in the Mountains of Mithrim, and were probably in the northern part of the range on its eastern side.
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The mountain of Amon Darthir rose near the place where the Mountains of Mithrim joined with the Mountains of Shadow (or Ered Wethrin). It is named as belonging to Ered Wethrin, but given its location it might perhaps also have been considered to stand among the southernmost peaks of the Mountains of Mithrim.
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