Lindon
the last keeping; where the ships sail West
The Story
Lindon is what the sea left of Beleriand. After the War of Wrath, when the western land sank, the strip east of the Blue Mountains held, and here Gil-galad founded the kingdom of the High Elves, the last great Eldar realm in Middle-earth. From Lindon Gil-galad rode south at the head of the Last Alliance, fought Sauron on the slopes of Orodruin, and there fell.
After his fall, Círdan the Shipwright kept the Grey Havens at the inner end of the Gulf of Lune, and from there, age after age, the great ships sailed West. Frodo sailed from Mithlond in the year the Third Age ended. Sam sailed in his own time after. Bilbo and Gandalf and Galadriel sailed before. Lindon is where the long story of the Eldar in Middle-earth at last lets go.
The Land
A thin coastal strip between the Blue Mountains and the sea, bisected horizontally by the Gulf of Lune. North of the gulf lies Forlindon; south of it, Harlindon.
- Mithlond, the Grey Havens, Círdan's harbour at the inner end of the Gulf of Lune, last of the elven ports.
- Gulf of Lune, the great horizontal bay cutting deep inland through the Blue Mountains, dividing the country.
- Forlindon & Harlindon, the northern and southern halves of the strip.
- Lhûn, the great river flowing into the Gulf of Lune from the east.