(map by yours truly as I was very unsatisfied with available Misty Mountain maps)
Who knows what you might find if you venture to the Misty Mountains, known to the Elves as Hithaeglir. Many folk have dwelt here over time: the dwarves of Khazad-dûm, goblins and orcs and Nameless Things in the deep darkness and Eagles patrolling the skies above. Wolves may howl in the night and prowl by day beneath murders of crebain out to spy.
High Pass & the Carrock
"That Somebody made the steps on the great rock-the Carrock I believe he calls it. He does not come here often, certainly not in the daytime, and it is no good waiting for him. In fact it would be very dangerous."
"He called it the Carrock, because carrock is his word for it. He calls things like that carrocks, and this one is the Carrock because it is the only one near his home and he knows it well." - Gandalf, Chapter 7, Queer Lodgings, The Hobbit
The High Pass climbs east from Rivendell into the mountains past Goblin-town and onto the Vales of the Anduin. During the Third Age, the Pass was controlled by Orcs on and off until the War of the Ring when the Beornings took over but charged high tolls (at least according to Gloin).
Eagle Eyrie
“‘Soon another eagle flew up. 'The Lord of the Eagles bids you to bring your prisoners to the Great Shelf,' he cried and was off again.” - Out Of The Frying-pan Into The Fire, The Hobbit
Somewhere in the eastern Misty Mountains is the Eagle Eyrie where the great Eagles are based, poised to keep a watchful eye out for orcs and other goings on.
Goblin-town
Caves beneath the mountains occupied by orcs who were ruled over by the Great Goblin until he was killed by Gandalf.
Khazad-dûm
"Greatest of all the mansions of the Dwarves was Khazad-dûm, the Dwarrowdelf, Hadhodrond in the Elvish tongue, that was afterwards in the days of its darkness called Moria.” - Of the Sindar, The Silmarillion
Once a great Dwarven city with a wealth of mithril until it was abandoned due to the unleashing of Durin’s Bane. Orcs took over residence there in the Third Age despite attempts to repopulate the city by dwarves.
Redhorn Gate
“‘There the mountains divide, and between their arms lies the deep-shadowed valley which we cannot forget: Aznulbizar, the Dimrill Dale, which the Elves call Nanduhirion.’
‘It is for the Dimrill Dale that we are making,’ said Gandalf. ‘If we climb the pass that is called the Redhorn Gate under the far side of Caradhras we shall come down by the Dimrill Stair into the deep vale of the Dwarves. There lies the Mirrormere, and there the River Silverlode rises in its icy springs.’” - Chapter 3, The Ring Goes South, The Fellowship of the Ring
A narrow, dangerous pass from Hollin in the west across the lower flanks of Caradhras to the Dimrill Dale and the Mirrormere (or Kheled-zâram) in the east.
Special thanks to the NuLibrary Hobbit QuoteBank for helping provide quotes.
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