Glanduin

Glanduin
   'Border-river', flowing westwards from the Misty Mountains; forming in the Second Age the southern boundary of Eregion and in the Third a part of the southern boundary of Arnor.
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   The river that flowed down into Swanfleet.
   The river that rose in the Misty Mountains, south of Khazad-dûm. It flowed westward to meet the Hoarwell above Tharbad, where it formed the marshland known as Nîn-in-Eilph or Swanfleet.

J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth glossary. . 2003.

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