None now dwell here of great note and those who do dare venture through the haunted graveyard of stone works, do so at their peril. A waterlogged ruin, it festers in the third age as one of so many barely recognizable remnants of the past. Tharbad evolved into the new power of the Greyflood.įollowing both floods and plague which devastated the region, now Lond Daer little resembles it's former glory.
However Sauron ravaged more of the local woodland than the sailors had, leaving the land barren, and though trade persevered for a time, this slowed considerably after the Fall of Númenor. Lond Daer was frequently referred to as Lond Daer Enedh, serving as a middle harbour, south of Lindon and north of Pelargir, and it was effectively employed by Men arriving to support the Elves in the Wars of the Second Age. Consequent deforestation of Minhiriath and Enedwaith incited hostility amongst the natives but repeated attacks by these ferocious Dunlendings could not properly see off the Men of the Sea.
Perfectly located as a harbour at the estuary of River Gwathló, it's primary function was a convenient timber harvest for the Guild of Venturers. The early settlement of Vinyalondë, or "New Haven" was established at Lond Daer by Aldarion of Númenor in approx 750 SA. (Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth) It was called Lond Daer Enedh, the Great Middle Haven (as being between Lindon in the North and Pelargir on the Anduin). The ancient port was one of the earliest ports of the Númenóreans, begun by the renowned mariner-king Tar-Aldarion, and later enlarged and fortified. The ancient sea-port and its great quays were ruinous, but with long labour a port capable of receiving seagoing vessels had been made at Tharbad, and a fort raised there on great earthworks on both sides of the river, to guard the once famed Bridge of Tharbad. In the early days of the kingdoms the most expeditious route from one to the other (except for great armaments) was found to be by sea to the ancient port at the head at the estuary of the Gwathló and so to the riverport of Tharbad, and thence by the Road.
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