This article or section needs to be cleaned up to conform to a
higher standard of article quality. |Type||Ford, and town|
|Location||Eriador, on the Gwathló river| |Description||An
important for and town during the Second and Third Ages| The
land of Tharbad was almost flat, with sluggish waters tending to
spread into fenland. Above Tharbad the river forked, with both
branches having converged from out of a network of swamps, pools
and eyots. It was populated by swans, and many other waterbirds.
This huge fenland north-east of Tharbad, which the elves named
'Nîn-in-Eilph'.  Second Age In the early Second Age the
'Swanfleet', entered the southern part of the Noldorin realm
Eregion. In the sixth century of that Age Aldarion went much on
land as well as sea, and went up the River Gwathló as far as
Tharbad, and there met Galadriel. Such early river voyages were
also made by hardy explorers of Númenor, in ships of smaller
draught, but such journeys up the Gwathló increased rapidly
after the Númenóreans constructed