Tumblr crosspost (8 July 2020)

[anghraine]

Since I was screaming about Lebennin earlier—

Beregond:

“For this attack will draw off much of the help that we looked to have from Lebennin and Belfalas, where folk are hardy and numerous.”

General appearance:

before them was the Anduin glittering in the sun, as it flowed away, out of the sight even of Legolas, into the wide flats and green haze of Lebennin and South Ithilien.

Elves have songs about how beautiful Lebennin is, no big:

Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui
In the green fields of Lebennin!
Tall grows the grass there. In the wind from the Sea
The white lilies sway,
And the golden bells are shaken of mallos and alfirin
In the green fields of Lebennin,
In the wind from the Sea!

In the celebrations of Aragorn’s arrival/coronation:

there were players upon viols and upon flutes and upon horns of silver, and clear-voiced singers from the vales of Lebennin.

The narrator’s overview of the people of Lebennin:

“[T]he most part of the people of Gondor lived in the seven circles of the City, or in the high vales of the mountain-borders, in Lossarnach, or further south in fair Lebennin with its five swift streams. There dwelt a hardy folk between the mountains and the sea. They were reckoned men of Gondor, yet their blood was mingled, and there were short and swarthy folk among them whose sires came more from the forgotten men who housed in the shadow of the hills in the Dark Years ere the coming of the kings.”

L E B E N N I N  ❤️ ❤️ ❤️