Grey Mountains (north)

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Grey Mountains
General information
Type	Mountain range
Other names	Ered Mithrin
Location	North-west of Erebor, north of Mirkwood
Capital	Dáin's Halls
People
Inhabitants	Durin's Folk Dragons Orcs
Spoken languages	Westron, Khuzdul, Orkish
History
Founded/built	Inhabited in the Third Age by Durin's Folk
Lifespan	Third Age -

The Grey Mountains

The Grey Mountains, or the Ered Mithrin, was a large mountain range in Middle-earth located to the north of Rhovanion.

Description

The Grey Mountains were the last remnants of the wall of the Iron Mountains, which once stretched all over the north of Middle-earth, but were broken at the end of the First Age after the War of Wrath. North of the Grey Mountains lay Forodwaith, or the Northern Waste. This land was known as Dor Daidelos during the First Age, but most of it was destroyed in the breaking of Arda after the War of Wrath.

In the maps of the Second and Third Age, it may look like the Grey Mountains were but a northern arm of the Misty Mountains, but in truth, this mountain range was far older, stemming from the creation of Arda, whereas the Misty Mountains had not been raised until after the Years of the Lamps.

Where the Grey Mountains met at their western end with the Misty Mountains lay Mount Gundabad, an ancient Dwarven holy site and the place where Durin I awoke.  

The stretch of mountains west of the Misty Mountains which still formed one range with the Grey Mountains was known as the Mountains of Angmar, another remnant of the Iron Mountains.

The eastern end of the Grey Mountains was split into two branches, and in between lay the Withered Heath, where dragons still bred. After that was a long gap until the Iron Hills continued the old line of the Iron Mountains again. The Lonely Mountain was not part of either range and was entirely separate.

From east to west the mountains stretched some 350 Númenórean Miles, and the sources of the Great River Anduin, Langwell, the river Greylin, and the Forest River of Mirkwood arose in this range.

Inhabitants

The Dwarves of Durin's folk considered the Ered Mithrin as part of their land as far back as the reign of Durin I. Because of constant attack by both Orcs of Morgoth and possibly Dragons, they were not heavily explored or settled until the Third Age. By the Third Age all Dwarven strongholds had been abandoned or raided by dragons, and the Grey Mountains served only to divide Forodwaith from Wilderland. Very few dwarves remained in the Grey Mountains during the Third Age after the core population left, and the Kingdoms of Durin's Folk most probably reclaimed their halls in the Grey Mountains during the Fourth Age due to the diminished states of Orcs and Dragons.

Etymology

The Grey Mountains are also known as Ered Mithrin in Sindarin; from ered (mountains) + mithrin (grey).

Other versions of the Legendarium

Another line of Grey Mountains in Middle-earth are seen on the Ambarkanta map: these are a series of mountains which continue the line of the Blue Mountains as the western edge of Endor, but on the southern half of the continent. Since no maps of the entire world exist after the First Age, it is unknown if this mountain line still existed in the Third Age. In any case they do not appear in any narrative.

Translations

Foreign Language	Translated name
Afrikaans	Grys Berge
Albanian	Malet gri
Amharic	ግራጫ ተራሮች
Arabic	الجبال رمادية
Basque	Mendiak Grisa
Belarusian	Шэрыя Гарах (Cyrillic) Šeryja Harach (Latin)
Bengali	গ্রে পর্বতমালা
Bosnian	Planine Sive
Bulgarian	Сивите Планини (Cyrillic) Sivite Planini (Latin)
Cambodian	ប្រផេះភ្នំ
Catalan	Muntanyes Grises
Chichewa	Imvi Mapiri
Chinese (Hong Kong)	灰色山脈 A.K.A. 伊瑞德米斯林
Croatian	Planine Sive
Czech	Hory Šedá
Danish	Gråbjerge
Esperanto	Griza montoj
Estonian	Hallmäed
Faroese	Gráurfjøll
French	Montagnes Grises
Frisian	Grize Bergen
Dutch	Grijze Bergen
Galician	Montañas Grises
Georgian	რუხი მთები
German	Graue Berge / Graues Gebirge
Greek	Γκρι Βουνά
Hawaiian	Oho Mauna
Icelandic	Grá Fjöll
Indonesian	Gunung-gunung abu-abu
Italian	Montagne Grigie
Irish Gaelic	Sléibhte Liath
Japanese	灰色山脈
Javanese	Gunung klawu
Haitian Creole	Gri mòn yo
Hebrew	הרי גריי
Hindi	ग्रे पर्वत
Hungarian	Szürke-hegység
Kannada	ಗ್ರೇ ಪರ್ವತಗಳು
Kazakh	Сұр таулар (Cyrillic) Sur tawlar (Latin)
Korean	회색 산맥
Kurdish	Çiyayên Gewr (Kurmanji Kurdish)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic	боз тоолор
Latvian	Pelēks Kalni
Lithuanian	Pilka kalnai
Luxembourgish	Groen Bierger
Macedonian Cyrillic	Греј Планини
Maltese	Muntanji griża
Malagasy	Grey Tendrombohitra
Malaysian	Kelabu Pergunungan
Marathi	ग्रे पर्वत
Mongolian Cyrillic	саарал уулс
Nepalese	ग्रे पर्वत
Norwegian	Gråfjellene
Old English	Beorgas Grǣg
Pashto	خړ غرونه
Persian	(Grey Mountains) کوه های خاکستری (Ered Mithrin) سرزمین‌میانه
Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal)	Montanhas Cinzentas
Polish	Szare Góry
Punjabi	ਗ੍ਰੇ ਪਹਾੜ
Romanian	Munții Gri
Russian	Серые горы
Scottish Gaelic	Glas Beanntan
Serbian	Сиве планине (Cyrillic) Sive planine (Latin)
Shona	Gireyi Makomo
Sindhi	ڀورو جبل
Sinhalese	අළු කඳු
Slovak	Hory Sivá
Slovenian	Gore Sive
Somalian	Buuraha Cirro
Spanish (Spain and Latin America)	Montañas Grises
Swedish	Grå bergen
Tagalog	Abo Bundok
Tamil	சாம்பல் மலைகள்
Tatar	Соры Таулар
Telugu	గ్రే పర్వతాలు
Thai	เทือกเขาสีเทา
Turkish	Gri Dağlar
Turkmen	Çal Daglar
Ukrainian Cyrillic	Сірих горах
Urdu	گرے پہاڑوں
Uyghur	كۈلرەڭ تاغلار
Uzbek	Кулранг Тоғлар (Cyrillic) Kulrang Tog'lar (Latin)
Vietnamese	Dãy núi xám
Welsh	Mynyddoedd llwyd
Xhosa	Iintaba ezingwevu
Yiddish	גריי בערג
Yucatec Maya	Witso'obo' Grises