The Lord of the Rings · Location

Fornost Erain

Also known as Norbury of the Kings

  • city
  • ancient Númenórean

The ancient royal city of Arnor on the North Downs, long ruined, called Norbury of the Kings in the Common Speech. It is remembered as the company rides the Greenway south, a name of fallen kingship rather than a place they enter.

Type
city
Style
ancient Númenórean
First appears
Book 3 · Ch. 17
Books
1

History

  1. BOOK 3The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

    The ancient royal city of Arnor on the North Downs, long ruined, called Norbury of the Kings in the Common Speech. It is remembered as the company rides the Greenway south, a name of fallen kingship rather than a place they enter.

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