Dates

Destroyed at the end of the First Age¹

Location

Running westward from the Blue Mountains, dividing the lands of Thargelion and Ossiriand

Settlements

The Dwarf-city of Nogrod was near the river's source

Source

The central western Blue Mountains

Outflow

Into Gelion below the ford of Sarn Athrad

Important peaks

Mount Dolmed rose above the river's source

Pronunciation

a'skarr (the final 'r' should be pronounced - 'rr' is used here to emphasise this)

Meaning

'Rushing'

Other names

Known as Rathlóriel ('Goldenbed') after the drowning of the treasure of Doriath in I 502

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River Ascar

Last resting-place of the treasures of Doriath

Years of the TreesFirst AgeISecond AgeIIThird AgeIIIFourth AgeIV

The Seven Rivers of Ossir

The northernmost of the rivers that flowed through Ossiriand, along the northern bank of which lay the Dwarf-road from the Blue Mountains. It was renamed Rathlóriel ('Goldenbed') after the sinking of the treasure of Doriath there.

Notes

Actually, the course of the Ascar in the First Age seems closely comparable with the much wider and more extensive Gulf of Lhûn of later Ages. After the Great Sea swallowed much of Beleriand in the War of Wrath, it seems to have followed the course of Ascar, and then broken through the Blue Mountains to form the Gulf. From a certain perspective, then, Ascar wasn't so much destroyed at the end of the First Age as greatly expanded to form a wide inlet of the Sea.

River Ascar

Last resting-place of the treasures of Doriath

Notes

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