Once fertile and well-settled by Arnorian knights, Dyr Úvadan became a desolate grassland dotted with mined towers and fields lying fallow. In the years of the successor states, Arthedain possessed too few Men to hold the region, yet Angmar lacked the strength to conquer it. Packs of wolves and brigands made Dyr Úvadan their home; such inhabitants remained little troubled by the Orc raids and Arthadan sorties that passed back and forth across the plains.