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Rings of Power, Tirharad in ‘The Southlands’

A short video has revealed the location of Tirharad, the village where Bronwyn lives with her son Theo depicted in a number of recently released images.

Tirharad is located in The Southlands, what will become Mordor, within the three sided mountain range and close to the Sea of Núrnen or Lake Núrnen. Melkor created Mount Doom in the First Age and Sauron settled in Mordor around the year 1000 of the Second Age. Nurn was the name given to this southern regions of what becomes Mordor. At the time of the War of the Ring slaves from this region worked fields by the dark, sad water of Lake Núrnen to feed the armies of Sauron. Nurn means "sad" in Sindarin.

So the villagers we see in the video are enjoying their peaceful existence pending the cataclysmic upheaval of Sauron’s destruction.

In Tolkien lore, The South Lands or The Dark Land, refer to a continent that lay in south-east Arda,

created by the geographic changes due to the Battle of the Powers. During this struggle the Valar overthrew Melkor in his original fortress of Utumno. Middle-earth was split into two landmasses, and the landmass to the south and east was known as the the South Lands or Dark Lands.

@Tolkien_erklart has enhanced the map on the video and located the village of Tirharad, along with other geographical place names such as Ostirith, Hondern or Hordern and Orodruin, Mount Doom.

Ref: HoM-e, The Shaping of Middle-earth, The Ambarkanta: Map V, TolkienGateway

Artwork: PrimeVideo, @Tolkien_erklart

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