On Lake Nenuial

[Kirinki54]

Did Elendil ever sail up the Baranduin to Lake Nenuial? Did other Dunedain? Or did they do their sea-borne travel by the River Lhun?

Anyone know anything about Lake Nenuial? Did the Dunedain sail or fish there? Was there a port or fishing camp at Annuminas? Other villages/cities scattered around the coasts?

[afro-elf]

interesting I was just looking at that map a few minutes ago and wondering about it.

[Ñólendil]

I don't know much about Annuminas, other than that it was sort of the capitol of Arnor in its day. It was repopulated in the Fourth Age, and Elessar stayed there off and on.

[Michael Martinez]

Ship-travel between Arnor and Gondor used Tharbad as a port, so I'm not sure that the Baranduin could be navigated by sea-going vessels. It certainly doesn't sound like one of those huge rivers. In fact, Sarn Ford was located on the border of the Southfarthing. You can't take a deep-water vessel past a ford (which is a shallow region of a river where people and animals may cross, although the crossing may be dangerous).

[Kirinki54]

Originally posted by Michael Martinez
Ship-travel between Arnor and Gondor used Tharbad as a port, so I'm not sure that the Baranduin could be navigated by sea-going vessels. It certainly doesn't sound like one of those huge rivers. In fact, Sarn Ford was located on the border of the Southfarthing. You can't take a deep-water vessel past a ford (which is a shallow region of a river where people and animals may cross, although the crossing may be dangerous).

No, forgot the Sarn ford. Baranduin seems pretty large in other places. There is a ferry which Frodo & friends use at Bucklebury (I think) and that system seems important. Did it have any roots from the Arnorian kingdom or was it strictly a Brandybuck business? It is described as very well maintained.

[Michael Martinez]

I think the ferry was strictly a Brandybuck thing. The Buckland was colonized centuries after the fall of Arnor.