Merlock Mountains

The Merlock Mountains were a mountain range, near the dwelling of the Mewlips, in the invented folk-loreTCG Letter #1063 at the Tolkien Collector's Guide of the Hobbits of the Shire.
They are mentioned only in the poem "The Mewlips"The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book, "The Mewlips", given in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book.
== Behind the scenes ==
Tolkien confirmed in a 1963 letter to one Miss Allen that the Mewlips, and thereby the strange entities of the poem named after them, were made up as legend’s by the Shire-folk.
Some Tolkien scholars have tried to identify the Mewlips more precisely. As the Mewlips could possibly be a misremembering of Orcs or Trolls, and because the poem describes a location similar to Mirkwood, it is speculated that the Merlock Mountains were a fictitious version of real places were Orcs dwelt, like the Misty Mountains, Mountains of Mirkwood, or Grey Mountains.The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
==References==
Category:Mountain ranges
Category:Places in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil