Dead Marshes

The haunted marshlands beside the Battle Plain

Years of the TreesFirst AgeISecond AgeIIThird AgeIIIFourth AgeIV

The fetid swamplands that lay between the Emyn Muil and the northern marches of Mordor, the site of many deaths during the War of the Last Alliance, so that the marshes were still haunted by strange apparitions at the end of Third Age, three thousand years later.

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During that terrible battle, the fighting spilled over from the plain into the marshes, leaving many dead. From then on, mysterious faces appeared in the mires, giving rise to the name 'Dead Marshes'. Of course the marshes themselves had existed long before the battle (though no earlier name is recorded), but the timeline above shows the period after the Battle of Dagorlad.

Dead Marshes

The haunted marshlands beside the Battle Plain

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