Desert of Lostladen

The Desert of Lostladen, also known as the Lothland desert and LothlannThe History of Middle-earth, The Treason of Isengard, chapter XV: "The First Map of The Lord of the Rings", "Maps IIIA and III", Map III, pg. 313 (squares U17 and U18), was a great desert in Near Harad that lay to the south of Mordor and to the east of the Harad Road in Haradwaith.The History of Middle-earth, The War of the Ring, Part Three: "Minas Tirith": chapter XIV. "The Second Map", The Second Map (East), pgs. 435 (squares T16-7 and U15-7), 439 (note 4)
==History==
The Desert of Lostladen may have contained one of the great roads that led to Haradwaith and Rhûn where the soldiers of the Tower gained possession "of goods and booty and fresh slaves" from tributary lands which they then brought back to Mordor in "long waggon-trains" along one of the great roads.The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Two, chapter II: "The Land of Shadow", pg. 923
Before the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, the Mordor-orcs crossed into the Desert of Lostladen beyond the Harnen river through the Narghil Pass,The History of Middle-earth, The War of the Ring, Part Three: "Minas Tirith": chapter II. "Book Five Begun and Abandoned", (ii) The Muster of Rohan, draft A, pg. 237 meeting with the Haradrim of Near Harad and the Corsairs of Umbar.The History of Middle-earth, The War of the Ring, Part Three: "Minas Tirith": chapter II. "Book Five Begun and Abandoned", (ii) The Muster of Rohan, draft E, pgs. 243-4
During the Last Debate, Aragorn II claimed that when they seized the Corsair fleet of Umbar on their way to the Pelennor Fields, the surviving Corsairs and the Haradrim among them had fled into the Desert of Lostladen.The History of Middle-earth, The War of the Ring, Part Three: "Minas Tirith": chapter XII. "The Last Debate", pgs. 413, 426 (note 35)
==Etymology==
Lostladen was a name in Sindarin comprised of the elements lost ("empty")lost on eldamo.org and laden ("flat, wide")laden on eldamo.org.
==See also==
*Lothlann
==Translations==
Foreign Language	Translated name
Danish 	Nargilpasset
Finnish 	Nargil-Sola
French 	Col de Nargil
==References==
Category:Harad
Category:Regions
Category:Sindarin names & words