Tol Morwen

Tol Morwen is a small island in Belegaer, drawn on the map south of Tol Fuin and west of the southern Blue Mountains. Unlike the other two remnants of Beleriand it is not a mountain top: it is the high point of the land around Cabed Naeramarth, the gorge on the river Teiglin where the story of the children of Húrin ended.

The people of Brethil raised a great grey stone there for Túrin Turambar after he killed himself, and cut on it his name and that of Nienor his sister, who had thrown herself into the same gorge. Morwen, their mother, came at last to the stone as an old woman, met Húrin beside it and died there, and was buried under the same ground.

When the sea came in at the end of the First Age and took Beleriand, the stone of Túrin was not thrown down and not drowned. The island left around it kept Morwen's name, an unvisited rock standing over a country that the water had otherwise erased.

Events at this place

1. FA 499 · The Silmarillion

   The Stone of the Hapless is raised

   The Men of Brethil set a tall grey stone above Cabed Naeramarth in memory of Túrin and Nienor.

2. FA 500 · The Silmarillion

   Morwen dies at the stone

   Morwen came to the memorial, found Húrin there, and died beside it. She was buried under the stone.

3. FA 587 · The Silmarillion

   The sea spares the stone

   Beleriand was drowned, but the memorial stood unmoved above the water, and the island about it was named Tol Morwen.

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