Hithlum
In the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, Hithlum , the Country of the Fog, is the name Sindarin given to an area of the Ground of the Medium, in the North-West of the Beleriand. The equivalent Quenya was Hísilómë .
Hithlum was delimited by the chain of the Ered Wethrin, which separated it from Ard-galen in the east and Beleriand itself in the south, and by the chain of the Ered Lómin, which separated it from the areas of Nevrast in south-west and Lammoth in the west, at the edge of the Grande Sea. In the south of Hithlum, a buttress of Ered Wethrin separated the two under-areas from Mithrim, around the big lake of the same name, and Dor-lómin. Opened with the winds of north, Hithlum was of fresh climate, with cold winters.
Hithlum was initially inhabited by Gray Elfes installed around the lake Mithrim, joined after the return of Ground the Ñoldor of the Medium by people of Fingolfin. His/her son Fingon held Dor-lómin, which was given later in stronghold to the Hommes of the house of Hador. Hithlum remained a showpiece of the fight against Morgoth during most of the First Age, until Nirnaeth Arnoediad, the battle of the Innumerable Tears, where most of its population perishes. Morgoth then allotted the area to the Orientaux.
Hithlum was submerged with the major part of Beleriand at the end of the First Age following the Guerre of the Great Anger.
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