Enedwaith (also spelled Enedhwaith) originally referred to both a region of Middle-earth and the men that inhabited it. The region of Enedwaith retained its name but the people of Enedwaith were long extinguished. 

The boundaries of the Enedwaith, which is Sindarin for 'Middle-region' as well as 'Middle-folk', were defined in the north by the rivers Gwathló and Glanduin, to the east by the Hithaeglir, and to the west by Belegaer, 'The Great Sea'. The southern border was less clear, but was probably formed by the river Isen.

During the First and early Second Ages Enedwaith was deeply forested, but with the arrival of the timber-hungry Númenóreans, from the seventh century of the Second Age onwards, the landscape was devastated.



Enedwaith, as depicted in The Lord of the Rings Online.

After SA 3320, Enedwaith formed the most northern part of the new Kingdom of Gondor, at least officially. The south-east was still "in places well-wooded", but elsewhere Enedwaith was by this time "mostly grassland." Following the Great Plague in TA 1636 however, Gondor's authority permanently lapsed throughout the region.

Tharbad, originally one of two ancient cities on the Gwathló, and the only one to survive beyond the early Third Age, was finally abandoned following devastating floods in TA 2912, and thereafter, only two groups survived in Enedwaith: the Dunlendings in the far east, and a "fairly numerous but barbarous fisher-folk" wandering the coast.

In the early Fourth Age, however, Enedwaith was absorbed into the Reunited kingdom, whose people "multiplied exceedingly", and many moved there.

Translations around the world Edit

Foreign Language Translated name
Georgian ენედვაისი
Hungarian Közép-nép
Places of Middle-earth and Arda

Middle-earth Locations:



Forests & Mountains:

Amon Dîn | Amon Hen | Amon Lhaw | Caradhras | Emyn Muil | Erebor | Fangorn Forest | High Pass | Iron Hills | Lórien | Mirkwood | Mount Doom | Old Forest | Tower Hills | Weather Hills


Angband | Barad-dûr | Bree | Caras Galadhon | Dol Guldur | Fornost | Hornburg | Isengard | Minas Morgul | Minas Tirith | Orthanc | Osgiliath | Rivendell | Umbar | Utumno



The rest of Arda:

Númenor | Dark Land | Aman | Valinor | Tol Eressëa
