Those who are here already a bit longer may remember the town names Maegoth and Baraketta near Annúminas (on the old map).
While searching for possible Public Projects locations I remembered these, I knew they were not canon, thus I wanted to know more about them and wanted to see whether the information given would fit the lore.

LotR wikia had a short article on Maegoth, along with a map. The source given for it was Lindefirion.com, a finnish role playing community. Their maps they "loosely based on Middle-Earth Role Playing" (MERP) , of which I do not know much.

In their maps section they have a detailed online map of Gondor with many additional locations; There is also one of Eriador around, but seeemingly not available on their page; here's the excerpt from the wiki:

http://lindefirion.net/maps/index.html

Now what it's all about is, whether we may consider using these maps as inspiration for our project. The maps are set at around the middle of the 3rd age (1000 - 1500 years before our map), arnorian towns would be thoroughly abandoned, while gondorian would still be inhabited.

Imo it would be an easy way of one hand populate areas of the map that we have no informations on, and it also would make sense that beside the bigger cities tolkien wrote about are also some small towns. I would especially check whether the names given seem feasible in terms of whether they even could be elvish (e.g. only use sounds and sound combinations that are allowed in elvish) and whether I can find out the meaning of them.

Please submit your opinion on this via the poll above, especially though I wanna tag @q220, @Credoo and maybe for a quick overall lore / feasibility check @JordD04 and @Fornad

- Finrod

Seafroggys said:

Eriador is sparsely populated though, so anything added in there would have to be ruins. And I wouldn't really be so sure about ruins either. Places like Osgiliath or even Ost-en-Edsel are still around because their constructions were of high nature and epic. Small villages, which did not have a lot of thought put into their construction, would probably not last the test of time.

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That's right, the maps are set in middle of Third Age; Arnor is at that point already separated and Cardolan gets defeated just around that time; the other two would do so 400 years later. So yes, all the arnorian cities would be abandoned since 1000 - 1500 years, however they were assumingly stone buildings and some remainings could still be visible.

Oh, and welcome to MCME!