Editing Middle Earth (section)

===Eriador===
Located in the northwest, Eriador is generally remote and isolated from most of the goings-on of Middle-Earth. It was once home to the human kingdom of Arnor and the Elven kingdom of Eregion, but both collapsed by the time The Hobbit takes place and the Grey Havens was the last remnant of the Elven Kingdom of Lindon. What's left is a mostly depopulated and rustic region. Typically, the only travelers to the region are Dwarves on their way to the Blue Mountains, or Elves going to the Grey Havens. Besides subsistence agriculture, there's only one major industry that the area's known for - ''pipeweed''. Despite the plant being used by Númenóreans as a fragrant ornamental plant, it wasn't until the hobbits started smoking and cultivating it that it became the commercial crop that its known as.
*'''The Shire''' - Here be [[Hobbits]]. Described as being geographically and ecologically similar to England, it is a peaceful rural country divided into the four farthings, with a recently colonized fifth called Buckland. It's capital and largest town is Michel Delving to the East, far from Bree. At the center is Hobbiton, where the Baggins family is from.
*'''Old Forest''' - One of two remnants of a primeval forest. Its trees are sentient and full of malice, and will try to direct all trespassers to Old Man Willow. However, [[Tom Bombadil]] and his wife also live here, and will guide travelers to safety.
*'''Barrow-Downs''' - A series of burial mounds and tombs within the former kingdom of Cardolan which also held a great number of the dead kings and nobles of old Arnor. It has since become haunted after the Witch-King of Angmar sent evil spirits to inhabit the dead bodies, creating the Barrow-Wights.
*'''Bree''' - A small settlement surrounded by a few satellite hamlets populated by men and hobbits living together in harmony, and one of the few settled towns in the region. Few people stray far from the surrounding countryside, as its very near to the Barrow-Downs.
*'''Amon Sûl''' - Known by locals as Weathertop. A ruined watchtower where Frodo got stabbed by the Nazgûl.
*'''Arnor''' - The other Kingdom of the Dúnedain. Used to encompass pretty much the entirety of Eriador. It fell to ruin centuries before the events of the book due to civil strife and the Witch-King of Angmar fighting a long war against it. Aragorn, due to being the direct descendant of Elendil, is technically the King of Arnor, although he doesn't reign over it until he is crowned king at the end of the trilogy, where he also unifies Arnor and Gondor.
*'''Fornost''' - Also known as Norbury of the Kings, former capital of Arnor, now just a pile of ruins known as Deadman's Dike. The Greenway used to connect Fornost to Gondor, passing through Bree before connecting the Great Western Road at Isen.
*'''Rivendell''' - Imladris in Sindarin. It is a small town hidden in a valley within the Misty Mountains and is populated by elves belonging to the House of Elrond.
*'''Grey Havens''' - The Westernmost part of Middle Earth, and the last remnant of the Elven kingdom of Lindon. At this harbor, elves leave for the Undying Lands, abandoned after the last Elves departed around the year 120 of the Fourth Age.
*'''Eregion''' - Destroyed realm just west of Moria that was one of the two remaining High Elven Kingdoms in Middle-Earth (the other being Lindon). The Rings of Power were made here.
*'''Forodwaith and Forochel''' - Technically not part of Eriador, Forodwaith is the northernmost part of Middle-Earth. The foul magic Morgoth used in the prehistorical Valian Years to build the demonic fortress of Utumno is still radiating from its ruins, trapping the land in eternal winter. The only living inhabitants of Forodwaith are Cold-drakes and whatever remaining Dragons are left. Forochel lies north of Angmar and Arnor, being the only known inhabited region of this arctic wasteland. Forochel's inhabitants are mainly the Lossoth, a hardy tribe of Inuit-look-alikes who live around the Cape of Forochel. The last reigning King of Arnor died here, after a rescue party sent by the Elves of Lindon failed to save him.
**'''Utumno''' - Located somewhere far, far in the polar north of Middle Earth, Utumno was built in in prehistory by Morgoth, and was the mightiest and most terrible dark fortress ever created, dwarfing its better known successor stronghold of ''Angband''; which served as ''merely an outlying armory'' to this beast of a dungeon to put things in perspective. How bad was this place? Its alternative Sindarin name ''Udûn'' can translate as '''Hell'''. Which is fitting, as this hellhole is where Morgoth created the first Orcs, alongside many of his other monstrous mockeries of Creation. Utumno was thankfully destroyed by the Valar, who destroyed it to such an extent that they "unroofed" it. Not even fantasy-Satan's ultimate Hell dungeon of a 40-man raid could even slightly slow a mere 14 of God's chosen Archangels apparently. The only traces left of Utumno are its ruins, which still curse the world with its unnatural cold. As the ruins are just merely ruins and in one of the most isolated corners of Middle Earth, the ruins of Utumno are merely a historical footnote, rather than a place of relevance, ironic for the "mightiest fortress ever created".