QUESTIONS AND INFORMATION
QUESTION: What is it about Lake Evendim in particular that Lothrin has fallen in love with? Its' beauty or maybe its' location? Perhaps a bit of both?
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ANSWER: Its beauty would be the #1 reason. Lake Nenuial isn’t called the “Lake of Twilight” for nothing. I would imagine its surface is breathtaking in the evenings. When I first started Lotro so many years ago, for me there was no more beautiful moment in the entire game than crossing the bridge at “High King’s Crossing”, seeing Annúminas in the far distance, then arriving at Tinnudir in broad daylight. The serenity of the place, the calming sound of the water combined with the gentle hums of a distant female voice (minute 9:26, 20:08, 47:11) made me fall irrevocably and completely in love with the place and I knew this is where I wanted Lothrin to dwell.
From a more lore-ish point of view, Lothrin did not discover lake Evendim in the Second Age when she moved from Imladris to Lindon (as she traveled on a more southern road, through what would become the Shire), but later at the beginning of the Third Age. While fighting in the Last Alliance, she heard from some of her kindred that a high-lady of the Noldor (meaning Galadriel) who came to dwell in Lorien, had first dwelled in Eregion and before that, by the banks of a lake in the north that once housed a colony of elves, but had been since abandoned as humans came and started inhabiting the place.
When they entered that region there were many Noldor in their following, together with Grey-elves and Green-elves; and for a while they dwelt in the country about Lake Nenuial (Evendim, north of the Shire). Celeborn and Galadriel came to be regarded as Lord and Lady of the Eldar in Eriador, including the wandering companies of Nandorin origin who had never passed west over Ered Lindon and come down into Ossiriand
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- Of Galadriel and Celeborn, Unfinished Tales
Curiosity and grief got the better of her and after losing her brother in the Last Alliance, she refused to go back to Lorien and instead journeyed north to find the lake and see if any of her kind still dwelled by its shores. Her companions had been right, Lothrin only found ruins and no elves for what would be hundreds of miles, as due Sauron’s aggressive war campaign most of the elven population flocked to either Lindon or Imladris. However, instead of finding remnants of her people, she did discover the white jewel of the north, the newly built Annúminas and she marveled. The rest as they say, it’s history.