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Jan 20, 2024 · Mirrormere was a dark lake in Dimrill Dale [1] on the east side of the Misty Mountains. [2] The lake was located less than a mile below the East-gate of Khazad-dûm.
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Kheled-zâram, known in Westron as Mirrormere, was a small lake in Azanulbizar, a vale east of Moria. It was the source of the Silverlode.
In The Fellowship of the Ring, it is described as follows: "Its waters were dark: a deep blue like clear evening sky seen from a lamp-lit room. Its face was still and unruffled. About it lay a smooth sward, shelving down on all sides to its bare unbroken rim."
The lake lay less than a mile east and a little below the East-gate of Moria. It was long and oval, shaped like a great spear-head thrust deep into the northern glen of the vale. Its waters were dark; a deep blue like a clear evening sky, and there was a smooth sward of grass around its rim.
In the First Age, Durin, the oldest of the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves, wandered into Azanulbizar vale and beheld in a small, still lake a reflection of himself bearing a crown of seven stars, a reflection of the constellation which would become known as Durin's Crown. Because of this sign, Durin chose to build his great hall in the mountains above that vale, but ever afterwards, only he could see his reflection in the lake.
The Dwarves of Durin's Folk regarded this site as sacred and built a monument there. It was a single stone column called Durin's Stone, standing by the roadside. After Moria was abandoned it fell into disrepair, and in the last years of the Third Age it was cracked, weather-worn, and broken at the top.
When Balin came to retake Moria in TA 2989, one of his companions, a Dwarf named Flói, was slain in a battle before the Gates and was buried in a place of honor by the banks of Kheled-zâram. Balin himself was killed here five years later, by an Orc arrow, when he went alone to look into the lake.
In early TA 3019, the Fellowship of the Ring stopped briefly at Kheled-zâram after fleeing Moria while Gimli, Frodo, and Sam took time to look into the lake amid their hurry.
The name Kheled-zâram is Khuzdûl, meaning "Glass-lake".
1.The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, chapter VI: "Lothlórien"
2.The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, chapter IV: "A Journey in the Dark"
3.The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, chapter V: "The Bridge of Khazad-dûm"
4.The History of Middle-earth, Vol. VI: The Return of the Shadow, chapter XXV: "The Mines of Moria", Notes
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Oct 16, 2023 · The Mirrormere (Kheled-zâram in Khuzdul) is the lake located beneath the East-gate of Khazad-dûm. It lies in the southeast corner of Dimrill Dale . Mirrormere is the source of the river Celebrant .
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Dec 18, 2021 · Gimli goes to look into the Mirrormere, the waters of Kheled-zâram about which we thought some weeks ago. It is the most sacred place in all the world of the dwarves, the place where Durin at his awakening looked, and saw his own reflection crowned by stars.
Sep 16, 2021 · Mirrormere was the lake located beneath the East-gate of Khazad-dûm. It lay in the southeast corner of Dimrill Dale. Mirrormere was the source of the river Silverlode.
Jan 20, 2024 · Mirrormere was a dark lake in Dimrill Dale on the east side of the Misty Mountains. The lake was located less than a mile below the East-gate of Khazad-dûm. It was long and oval with a shape like a great spear-head. The deep water of Mirrormere was dark blue like a clear evening sky seen from a lamp-lit room and had a still surface.
Jan 20, 2024 · Dimrill Dale was the source of the Silverlode river and at its southeast corner was Mirrormere, a sacred lake to the Dwarves of Durin's Folk. [1] During the Years of the Trees, Durin the Deathless wandered south to Dimrill Dale and founded the Kingdom of Khazad-dûm beneath the surrounding mountains.
