("General" seemed to be the only appropriate forum for this post.)
After a long hiatus, I have returned to working on my main's backstory. Many features of the landscape map to which I intend to refer seem to be unnamed in the game. As I do try to keep the story reasonably consistent with the game, I hope that someone might be able to tell me if I overlooked a reference.
The river near Trestlebridge is a feature of particular concern, as my story makes frequent reference to it. I do not believe the river (nor, for that matter, the village of Trestlebridge and the Trestlespan itself) appear in the Tolkien lore, so no help there. I assume that this river runs east to west, beginning at the falls below Nen Harn in North Downs. It then flows through the canyon past Nan Wathren and Trestlebridge. I would assume that it continues west to meet the Brandywine somewhere off-map.
However, the terminus west of the Trestlespan is another waterfall flowing *down* into the canyon.
Obviously, the the river has very bizarre hydrologic characteristics. Either:
1. It flows east to west and *up* the waterfall
2. It flows into the canyon from both ends and then north through Nan Wathren and then *up* into the mountains bordering Nan Amlug
3. It flows in from both ends and then to the wetlands around Meluinen, then back into Nen Harn (in a circular fashion!)
4. Water flows down from Nan Amlug then *splits* (really rare for a river) off to Nan Wathren and Meluinen (but that still doesn't give it an outlet)
or, more likely,
5. the developers goofed and rendered the western falls in the wrong direction. The wetlands of Meluinen feeds both Nen Harn and Kingsfell Creek (which, along with the trout stream that flows out of Nan Amlug and under the Annundir bridge, feeds the river that goes through Nan Wathren).
Whatever the case, I could find no name for this river. I suppose it *might* be the Trestle River, which would explain why the bridge is not a trestle-style bridge. (However, the current bridge, being wooden, is obviously quite new. In the days of the Arnorian Kingdom, the bridge on that site along the royal road to Fornost would surely have been constructed of stone and perhaps have been protected by stonewalled outposts on either side. So, maybe at some point before or since, an actual trestle bridge may have existed there.)
In my toon's story, his family calls the river the "Wounded River" and the canyon "The Gash". The wound theme then ties in with them referring to Nen Harn as "Wounded Lake". (This nomenclature exploits a homonym in Noldorin Elvish. While the game developers probably intended Nen Harn to mean "southern waters", it can also be translated as "wounded waters".)
Anyway, did I overlook some piece of game canon that identifies the river and would conflict with my story?
After a long hiatus, I have returned to working on my main's backstory. Many features of the landscape map to which I intend to refer seem to be unnamed in the game. As I do try to keep the story reasonably consistent with the game, I hope that someone might be able to tell me if I overlooked a reference.
The river near Trestlebridge is a feature of particular concern, as my story makes frequent reference to it. I do not believe the river (nor, for that matter, the village of Trestlebridge and the Trestlespan itself) appear in the Tolkien lore, so no help there. I assume that this river runs east to west, beginning at the falls below Nen Harn in North Downs. It then flows through the canyon past Nan Wathren and Trestlebridge. I would assume that it continues west to meet the Brandywine somewhere off-map.
However, the terminus west of the Trestlespan is another waterfall flowing *down* into the canyon.
Obviously, the the river has very bizarre hydrologic characteristics. Either:
1. It flows east to west and *up* the waterfall
2. It flows into the canyon from both ends and then north through Nan Wathren and then *up* into the mountains bordering Nan Amlug
3. It flows in from both ends and then to the wetlands around Meluinen, then back into Nen Harn (in a circular fashion!)
4. Water flows down from Nan Amlug then *splits* (really rare for a river) off to Nan Wathren and Meluinen (but that still doesn't give it an outlet)
or, more likely,
5. the developers goofed and rendered the western falls in the wrong direction. The wetlands of Meluinen feeds both Nen Harn and Kingsfell Creek (which, along with the trout stream that flows out of Nan Amlug and under the Annundir bridge, feeds the river that goes through Nan Wathren).
Whatever the case, I could find no name for this river. I suppose it *might* be the Trestle River, which would explain why the bridge is not a trestle-style bridge. (However, the current bridge, being wooden, is obviously quite new. In the days of the Arnorian Kingdom, the bridge on that site along the royal road to Fornost would surely have been constructed of stone and perhaps have been protected by stonewalled outposts on either side. So, maybe at some point before or since, an actual trestle bridge may have existed there.)
In my toon's story, his family calls the river the "Wounded River" and the canyon "The Gash". The wound theme then ties in with them referring to Nen Harn as "Wounded Lake". (This nomenclature exploits a homonym in Noldorin Elvish. While the game developers probably intended Nen Harn to mean "southern waters", it can also be translated as "wounded waters".)
Anyway, did I overlook some piece of game canon that identifies the river and would conflict with my story?
