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Probably1 destroyed at the end of the First Age
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On the Ravines of Teiglin on the western borders of the Forest of Brethil
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Cabed-en-Aras

The Deer’s Leap

Map of Cabed-en-Aras
Cabed-en-Aras on the river Teiglin (somewhat conjectural)2
Cabed-en-Aras on the river Teiglin (somewhat conjectural)2

The Deer's Leap; a narrow point in the Ravines of Teiglin. It was here that Túrin Turambar slew the Dragon Glaurung.


Notes

1

While most of Beleriand was lost under the Great Sea at the First Age's end, a very few regions survived as islands, and one of these held the Stone of the Hapless near Cabed-en-Aras. It is possible, therefore, that some part of the ravine may have survived as part of Tol Morwen (as the later island was known).

2

The geography of the region around the Crossings of Teiglin is not well mapped, and the exact location of Cabed-en-Aras is open to conjecture. The location shown on this map is based on a comment in Narn i Chîn Húrin referring to Niënor crossing the bridge of Celebros in Brethil. From there, we're told, there was a view of the Ravines of Teiglin some two miles to the west, and this view set Niënor shuddering.

Niënor's shuddering was apparently a foresight of her later death at Cabed-en-Aras, implying that that was what she saw two miles to the west. This isn't absolutely certain (Niënor might have been reacting simply to seeing the Ravines in general, rather a specific place) but lacking more precise detail we use these comments from the Narn as a guide to the geography of this area.

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