[narfforc]

Rhovanion (Wilderland) had once been the realm of Vidugavia, the self styled King of Rhovanion. The Eotheod were the remnants of The Northmen, who had formerly been a numerous and powerful confederation of peoples living in the wide plains between Mirkwood and the River Running, great breeders of horse and riders renowned for their skill and endurance, though their settled homes were in the eaves of the Forest, and especially in the East Bight, which had largely been made by their felling of trees. Later their lands lay north of Mirkwood, between the Misty Mountains westward and the Forest River eastwards. Southward it extended to the confluence of the two short rivers that they named Greylin and Langwell. So Rhovanion had been occupied by The Northmen (The Eotheod) and The Wainriders at seperate times and later The Balcoth. These events happened during the Third Age, both Lorien and The Woodland Realm were founded during the Second Age therefore sovereign states before this time, as for Fangorn it was ageless in human terms. Lorien was formerly the Nandorin realm of Lorinand, people by those elves who forsook The Great Journey in the First Age. It extended into the forest on both sides of The Great River, including the region where afterwards was Dol Guldur.