Beleriand

[Nilore]

Does any one know (in Middle Earth) apart from the elves, That there is an entire land west of the Blue mountains.

[Sister Golden Hair]

The Dwarves knew, and the enemy knew.

As a matteroffact Dwarves delved and lived under the High Faroth long before it became Nargothrond.

[Falagar]

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[Nilore]

Yeah. But dwarves are mortal so it will just be a legand to them. Galadriel would know though.

[Beleg Strongbow]

And Elrond.

[Falagar]

I thought Elrond was an Elf ;)

[Sister Golden Hair]

Originally posted by Falagar
I thought Elrond was an Elf ;) Yup, and Galadriel.

[Radagast The Brown]

originally posted by Nilore
Does any one know (in Middle Earth) apart from the elves, That there is an entire land west of the Blue mountains. amm... if you don't want elves and immortals, who you look for?

[Inderjit Sanghera]

There problably were quite a number of Numenorean scriptures telling us about it in the Minas Tirith libary. They weren't THAT ignorant of their history.

[markedel]

Actually they were. The Gondorians were in a state of decline and knowledge of history was pretty low. See the palantiri essay in UT for example.

[Galin]

I note also Treebeard's chant.

Interestingly (with respect to the Tol Fuin information delivered in Unfinished Tales), in the chant Dorthonion appears included in the lands under the wave.

[Willow Oran]

You mean there was a land west of the blue mountains... Considering that the drowning of Beleriand would have been a major event in the histories of any peoples who ever lived there, i.e. elves, dwarves, ents, the edain and all offshoots thereof... it is probably safe to say that the idea that there once was a land there would be common in all of those peoples's oral traditions. So yes, lots of people who knew about it, though probably only a few who knew very much and only the elves and ents who remembered living there.