Sirannon (Sindarin for 'Gate-stream') was a river in Eriador.

Once flowing from an underground source near the West side of Moria and running along the road that once led to Ost-in-Edhil, it was dammed at an unknown date in the last thousand years of the Third Age, closing off the Doors of Durin from neighboring lands. The foul pool created by the damming of the stream was where the Watcher in the Water lived.

After the War of the Ring and the resettling of Moria by the Dwarves, the stream and the foul pool it ran through was probably cleaned and freed up to flow naturally to its original destination.

References Edit

• The Atlas of Middle-earth pgs. 81 & 128-29
• The New Tolkien Companion

External link Edit

• Sirannon at Tolkien Gateway