Lond Daer Enedh

Lond Daer Enedh, or simply Lond Daer, was a great harbour in Eriador. It should be pronounced as lond dye-r en-eth.
== History ==
Under the name Vinyalondë, or 'New Haven', Lond Daer was founded by Númenor's crown prince and future "Ship-king" Tar-Aldarion on the estuary of the River Gwathló in the early Second Age. It was the first permanent settlement of the Númenóreans in Middle-earth. From here Aldarion's "Guild of Venturers" began harvesting the local timber for the shipbuilding industry of Númenor.
Within a few centuries, the deforestation of the outlying regions Enedwaith and Minhiriath became cataclysmic, angering the native peoples (ancestors of the Dunlendings), who became adverse and attacked the haven several times, setting fire to the stores of wood.
By the time of the War of the Elves and Sauron in the middle of the Second Age, Lond Daer had become very well established, and its name had shifted over the intervening one thousand years to 'Lond Daer', the Great Haven. As such, it was one of the two beachheads of the Númenórean forces in Eriador that were used to support the Elves around SA 1700.
Lond Daer's shipyards were starved of timber following the war, as the forces of Sauron had burnt almost all of what remained in Enedwaith and Minhiriath. Once its shipbuilding yards were no longer practicable, Lond Daer declined in importance, and the Númenórean hunger for ever more wealth shifted focus to the establishment of newer havens to the south, Pelargir and Umbar. Following this, Lond Daer was once again renamed, being now one of several major ports in Middle-earth, and was known as Lond Daer Enedh, or 'Great Middle Haven', a stronghold of the Faithful Númenóreans. Despite this, Númenor still maintained traffic on the Gwathló as far as the city of Tharbad.
After the Downfall of Númenor, Elendil founded the realm of Arnor in the lands north of Lond Daer, but the haven was now redundant, and fell into ruin. Instead, control over the region was maintained from Tharbad.Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, Part Two: The Second Age, Chapter IV: "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", Appendices: Appendix D, The Port of Lond Daer The ancient ruins of Lond Daer were still visible as late as the end of the Third Age, however, and still featured on maps from that time.
== In adaptations ==
In Electronic Arts' The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II and The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king, the ruins of Lond Daer, scaled down, are seen on the Enedwaith map.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Amharic 	ሎንድ ዳየር ኤነድ
Arabic 	لوند دير إنيد
Armenian 	Լոնդ Դաեր
Assamese 	লন্দ ডায়েৰ এনেধ
Belarusian Cyrillic	Лонд Даер Энэд
Bengali 	লন্ড ডের এনেধ
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Лонд Даер (Lond Daer)
Винялонде (Vinyalondë)
Chinese (Hong Kong)	隆得戴爾
Georgian 	ლონდ დაერ ენედჰ
Greek 	Λονδ Δαερ Ενέδ
Gujarati 	લોન્ડ ડેર એનેધ
Hebrew 	(Lond Daer) לונד דאיר
(Vinyalondë) ויניאלונדה
Hindi 	लोंड डेर एनेध
Japanese 	ロンド・ダイア (Lond Daer)
ロンド・ダイア・エネズ (Lond Daer Enedh)
Kannada 	ಲೋಂಡ್ ಡೇರ್ ಎನೆದ್
Kazakh 	Лонд Даер (Cyrillic) Lond Daer (Latin)
Korean 	론드 데르 에네드
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Лонд Даер Энедх
Macedonian Cyrillic	Лонд Даер
Maithili 	लोंड डाएर एनेध
Malayalam 	ലോണ്ട് ഡേർ എനേഡ്
Marathi 	लॉन्ड डियर
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Лонд Даер
Nepalese 	ळोन्द ड​एर
Pashto 	لوند ضاېر
Persian 	لوند ضاهر ?
Punjabi 	ਲੋਂਡ ਦਏਰ
Russian 	Лонд Даэр
Sanskrit 	ळोन्द् ड​एर्
Serbian 	Лонд Даер (Cyrillic) Lond Daer (Latin)
Sinhalese 	ලෝන්ඩ් ඩේර් එනෙඩ්
Tajik Cyrillic 	Лонд Даер
Tamil 	லோண்ட் டேர் எனெத்
Tatar 	Лонд Даер Энед
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Лондон Даер Енедх
Urdu 	لوند ضاےر
Yiddish 	לאָנד דאַער
==References==
Category:Cities of Men
Category:Ruins
Category:Eriador
Category:Harbours and ports
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