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Caras Celairnen had a singular history. Situated on a rocky spit of dry land at the otherwise swampy confluence of the Uialduin and the Lhun, this ancient place had been continuously inhabited since the opening years of the Second Age, originally as a small elvish port used for trade with the dwarves and men of Eriador, and later as an early site of numenorean settlement.

Briefly the base of operations during Gondor’s military intervention under Eärnur, Caras Celairnen was sheltered from the cruel events that saw the Northern Kingdom fall. Some of its population departed with the armies of Gondor, and others followed Aranarth into the wilds. But a remnant clung on, trading quietly with the Uialdain and the dwarves of the Blue Mountains, and even at times the elves of Lindon.

Lordship of the town had been granted to Valandil’s youngest son Silivnir, and though the line was oft-broken it was maintained matrilineally, and it was customary for the lord to be a descendant of Silivnir even at the end of the Third Age.