Cirith Ninniach
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The Cirith Ninniach, the "Rainbow Cleft" was a thin, rocky pass through the Ered Lómin in the far northwest of Beleriand, in the First Age. It connected the land of Hithlum with the Firth of Drengist which led to the Great Sea. Tuor, the sire of Eärendil, was known to have travelled along this passage on his quest to find King Turgon and the elves of Gondolin, and it was he that gave the name to the cleft.
Alas, Cirith Ninniach was lost beneath the waves with the majority of Beleriand's lands following the War of Wrath, which marked the end of the First Age, and a new era of Middle-earth.