In the early years of the Third Age, the northwest of Middle-earth was dominated by two mighty Númenórean Kingdoms, Arnor in the north and Gondor in the south. Between them lay a narrow land that properly belonged to neither kingdom, known as Enedwaith. Through this land ran a road built by the Númenórean Exiles to connect their realms. A traveller journeying southward through Enedwaith along the North-South Road would eventually come to the point where it crossed the River Isen (then known by its Elvish name of 'Angren'). The crossing of the Fords of Isen - the Ethraid Engrin as they were known in those times - marked the point of entry into the southern land of Gondor.
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The Elvish name for the Fords of Isen is given in two different but related forms. The singular Athrad Angren simply means the 'ford of Angren' (Angren, 'iron', being the Elvish name for the river Isen). Ethraid Engrin is simply a pluralised form of this name, a direct equivalent of the 'Fords of Isen'. The plural 'fords' was more usually used, because there were in fact two fords at the crossing, separated by a large eyot or river-island.
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