River Langwell

A minor river in the northern lands of Middle-earth. It rose in the eastern foothills beneath the northern peaks of the Misty Mountains, and ran eastward and a little southward for some eighty miles. Its waters then joined those of the Greylin, a river flowing southward from the Grey Mountains. These two streams combined to form the beginnings of the Great River Anduin, which flowed on southward gathering waters from many other streams and rivers before it reached its Mouths on the Bay of Belfalas, far away in the south.

The Langwell was given its name by the Northmen who settled on its banks in the later Third Age. Their name for the Great River was the Langflood, and so Langwell (literally 'long source') described a source stream of that mighty torrent. The Langwell formed part of the southern border of their land, the Éothéod, and the chief city of that land, Framsburg, was raised at the place where the Langwell and the Greylin met.

The Men of the Éothéod dwelt by the river for more than five centuries, but in III 2510 their leader, Eorl the Young, answered the call of Gondor and rode away into the southern lands. His people followed him to found the land of Rohan far away, and their former home beside the Langwell was left - at least as far records tell us - empty and unpeopled after that time.