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Orocarni
Mountain range
General Information
Other namesThe Red Mountains, the Mountains of the East
LocationFar east of Middle-earth
TypeMountain range
People and History
InhabitantsDwarves, Avari, Men
EventsThe awakening of several Dwarven clans
GalleryImages of Orocarni

The Orocarni was a mountain range in the far east made by the Valar before Arda was marred and the symmetry was lost in the wars against Melkor.[1]

Geography

The distance between the Orocarni in the East and the Misty Mountains, specifically Gundabad, was said to be as great or greater than that of Gundabad's distance to the Blue Mountains in the West.[2] On the western slopes of the Orocarni grew the Wild Wood, and near a great waterfall of a river that flowed into the Inland Sea of Helcar the bay of Cuiviénen lay, where the Elves woke.[3][4] At their northern edge the Orocarni connected with the Ered Engrin,[1] forming a situation much as the Ered Luin in the far west.

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