Middle-Earth Tours

Tour 2: The Places of Middle-Earth

The River Anduin

Falls of Rauros, by Roger Garland

 The Anduin section of the "Places of Middle-Earth" tour will give you a detailed look at the area around Nen Hithoel, the lake bounded by the Argonath, Rauros, Amon Hen and Amon Lhaw. If you'd like to see the Great River in its entirety (though with fewer pics of Nen Hithoel), you may take the Anduin Specialty Tour.

As you go down to the river,' [Celeborn] said, 'you will find that the trees will fail, and you will come to a barren country. There the River flows in stony vales amid the high moors, until at last after many leagues it comes to the tall island of the Tindrock, that we call Tol Brandir. There it casts its great arms about the steep shores of the isle, and falls then with a great noise and smoke over the cataracts of Rauros down into the Nindalf, the Wetwang as it is called in your tongue. That is a wide region of sluggish fen where the stream becomes tortuous and much divided....About that stream, on this side of the Great River, lies Rohan. On the further side are the Emyn Muil. The wind blows from the east there, for they look out, over the Dead Marshes and the no-man lands to Cirith Gorgor and the black gates of Mordor. --FotR, "Farewell to Lorien"

Anduin, from Classic XF
image from a FotR TV commerical
Tol Brandir, from Classic XF

The Anduin section of Tour 2 encompasses three pages:
The Argonath


The Argonath, early concept art from the official LotR movie site

 Parth Galen


Death of Boromir, by Inger Edelfeldt

 Amon Hen


the Seat of Seeing, pic from Scoop

Full-size versions of these pictures are on display at Rolozo Tolkien and the official LotR movie site.