The Far Lands of Rhûn
Credit to Colin Chan for the original image
"Eastward he looked into wide uncharted lands, nameless plains, and forests unexplored."
- “The Breaking of the Fellowship”, The Fellowship of the Ring
Far to the east Gondor and Rohan and Eriador lies the lands of Rhûn, sometimes called Amrûn, a vast primordial landscape largely unexplored by the Free Peoples of Middle-earth. It is home to the Easterlings, a people often at odds when the Dúnedain with feuds going back to the First Age and great War of the Jewels. Aside from the great inland Sea of Rhûn, almost nothing is known about the lands themselves. Cuiviénen and Hildórien, the sites of the awakening of the Children, are said to be in the far east as well. Rhûn itself stretches for untold leagues and contains vast amounts of mountain ranges, forests, fields, and steppes until it reaches the end at the Uttermost East where the mountains of the Orocarni tower above the plains. Like any place, Rhûn is filled with good and evil men, dark warlords and dauntless heroes, occult secret societies and everyday travelers. Almost nothing of the lands, the people, or their stories are known to the people of the West, until now…
Cities
Carcosa: a hidden city ruled by an entity known as the King in Yellow (Frost Original, sort of)
Tumunamahal: one of the great capital cities of the dwarves of Rhûn (MERP)
Firouroun: the capital city of the Sarmatians, a tribe of Easterlings (Frost Original, sort of)
Colchis: the capital city of the Uldorian Easterling tribe (Frost Original, sort of)
Al-Kanakh: the capital city of the Borian Easterling tribe (Frost Original)
Kurvasagh: the capital city of the Ulgath Easterling tribe, located on the Sea of Rhûn (MERP)
Korb Taskral: a hidden island city on the Sea of Rhûn (Frost Original)
Interesting, deuterocanonical chart about the lineages of Rhûnnish people
Regions and Places
The Great Inland Sea of Rhûn: a place of great cultural, economic, and political importance to all the people of Rhûn
The Shelf-Lands: lands far to the east, home of the Steppe tribes (MERP)
Ered Harmal: all that remains of the Mountains of the Wind, were legend says the valley of Hildórien was
The Orocarni: the Red Mountains, sometimes referred to as the Pelóri of the East
The Last Desert: a semi-mythical place, home of the fearsome Were-worms
The Wild Wood: a wild forest that grew near Cuiviénen
Lemuria: a region in the Uttermost East (Frost Original)
Note: This a far from complete list of cities, regions, and places, please feel free to add or own (and if you like I will add them to OP)
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