Quote Originally Posted by Tirian-Hammerfist View Post
Thanks for sharing this - I wasn't able to get on to Bullroarer in time to take a look!

Based on the image I shared above, would I be right in thinking that the red circled area is pretty much the boundaries, but with the northern boundary pulled a little further south to align with the most northerly accessible point of the Lhun?

I guess the blue bit (based on what Harvain pointed out) might come later, given that it includes the Tower Hills and the Grey Havens.

As for the Evendim link, I'd be disappointed if there wasn't at least one path through the hills to this new zone: I'd hope that there'd be a path through the hills out the back of Annuminas, as well as relatively unrestricted access out of the northern borders of the Shire and from Northcotton Farm (as well as from Ered Luin to the west).
Sure

I can say that................... Look on your map where the hills south of Annuminas hit the rear of NCF. Then-------- follow that more or less horizontally, and there may be some vales thrown in there, but basically consider the southern side of those mountains as the northern boundary --------- again perhaps with some variations Central-Gondor or southern Westfold-style- but mainly along that horizontal trajectory until it dips northward toward the Arnor ruins on the Ered Luin side and then basically stops where Ered Luin currently does.

The screenshot where you can see Annuminas to the right corroborates this- and that can give us an idea of the northernmost extent of the northern boundary that's north of the Shire, basically. That, from what I understand so far, is how north you could go for potentially most of the zone, and it might, again, simply be that this Evendim-ish area is carved out more northward (*like comparing....... Ringlo Vale and Dor-en-Ernil when it comes to longitude).

But there's also some gaps in our knowledge; so, like I said, we don't know precisely how many vales there might be or how far north those cuts in the cliffs would get you, etc. But so far, it's looking like a fairly solid Wall of boundaries between Evendim and the new region.

Some of the blue bit may appear in this update per the heavy landscape changes across the river from Falathlorn / Celondim --- but again, it's not clear as to whether those are background spaces or playable spaces. From the Falathlorn side, those towering hills look unplayable, and there aren't any signs of, say, Grey Havens appearing south of Celondim or what-not.

But if I could map-out LOTRO's map-scaling versus Tolkien's map, these towering hills...................... really, I'll be more surprised if they turn out --- not --- to be the Tower Hills, as per the truncated map scale, Grey Havens should not be far from Celondim as far as the map scale goes.

Like, they'd have to over-exaggerate their own map scale coordinates-wise to push those places further away from the playable Falathlorn areas, and the sign on the map near Rath Teraig has never made any sense to me because I know the Grey Havens are right where the Lhun exits into the Gulf of Lhun, and I know that, per the terrainmap plugin, that spot is visible on the map or like razor-thin close to it where you see the river going south of Celondim.

Yeah, as far as those hills go- nothing to the back of Evendim that I could see so far.


Cheers!