Nan Dungortheb

After Ungoliant fled Lammoth and the Balrogs of Morgoth she made her way to the valley below the Ered Gorgoroth. There she bred such horrors that the valley was given the name Nan Dungortheb. After she had departed the land was infested with her offspring. Waters that spilled into the valley from the Ered Gorgoroth were defiled, filling the hearts of those that drank of them with madness and despair. All living things other than the spiders avoided the valley, including the Noldor who would only cross it by paths nearest to Doriath.

When Aredhel, daughter of Fingolfin, attempted to ride eastward across Nan Dungortheb, her party was separated by the shadows. While she succeeded in reaching Himlad, her companions could not find her and were chased away by spiders. Returning to Gondolin, they reported her as lost to Turgon. Beren, sorely pressed by the forces of Morgoth who sought for him in Dorthonion, passed over the Ered Gorgoroth and crossed Nan Dungortheb from north to south. He never spoke of his journey through this land lest the horror of it return to his mind.

In The Book of Lost Tales, the land was identified as Nan Dumgorthin, the "Land of the Dark Idols". Instead of being inhabited by the offspring of Ungoliant (who never ventured to Middle-earth in this version), it is populated by strange Men that worshipped mysterious deities.

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