- Orocarni
In
J. R. R. Tolkien 'sfiction al universe ofMiddle-earth , the Orocarni was a mountain range in the far east.The Orocarni roughly followed the line of the "Red Mountains" which had been made by the Valar before
Arda was marred and the symmetry was lost in the wars against Melkor.On the western slopes of the Orocarni grew the "Wild Wood", and near a great waterfall of a river that flowed into the Inland
Sea of Helcar the bay ofCuiviénen lay, where the Elves woke.At their northern edge the Orocarni connected with the
Ered Engrin , forming a situation much as theEred Luin in the far west.Four of the seven
Fathers of the Dwarves awoke in the range.After the end of the
First Age the Orocarni remained, and it formed the eastern end of the land ofRhûn .One of the rivers that arose in the Orocarni flowed into the inland
Sea of Rhûn .Because the Orocarni were far to the east, they were not visited by the Eldar, and the
Edain did not reach them until theFourth Age , the Orocarni do not appear in any of the tales of theRed Book of Westmarch .
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