The Emyn Gonngaran (S. 'Redstone Hills'), known to the Haruze as the Ausk Dubat, were a vast stretch of lull country lying between the southern Ephel Dúath and the great lowland valleys of the lower Harnen and Ode Pezar.The Emyn Gonngaran began as foothills of the Ephel Dúath on the borders of Ithilien, joining with the Emyn Imladrim, the southern edge of the highlands of Harondor, to form a distinct expanse of jumbled, scrub-covered hills split by jagged gorges and hundreds of small ravines choked by thorn-bushes. Some four hundred miles farther east, the Emyn Gonngaran faded into the less rugged desert country of the Bursk Merag. The Harnen and many of its tributaries bisected the midsection of the hills with the gorges of Kres Lugal. Two roads, the Irit Núrn and the Rak Chelkar ran alon