Loeg Balimur (S. "Balimur Pools") was thr name given by the Daen fisherfolk of the lower Anduin to the swamplands that emerged on both banks ot the Great River at the latter's confluence with the Poros. Although often lumped together with the ferns of Ethir Anduin by the maps of the Dúnedain, the Loeg Balimur were in fact, geographically quite unrelated to the Ethir. The Balimur was essentially a lowland vale that had been flooded by the increased volume of water passing into Anduin from the Poros. (The Ethir Anduin proper was, by contrast, the product of silt and sediment build up from the river itself.) In one respect, however, these two swamps shared a common origin; like the fens of Ethir Anduin, the Loeg Balimur came into being as a result of the physical changes in the shape of the l