Morthond

 / Mornan

   'Black-root', river rising in a dark valley in the mountains due south of Edoras, called Mornan, not only because of the two high mountains between which it lay, but because through it passed the road from the Gate of the Dead Men, and living men did not go there.

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   The river of the Blackroot Vale.

   A river that rose under the shadows of the White Mountains (hence its name, meaning 'black root') and flowed approximately south through the lands of Gondor. It flowed into the Ringló above the ancient port of Edhellond.