Rising in the Cirith Ungol and flowing into the Anduin, the river once known as Ithilduin was shallow, swift, and unnavigable. Near its source, it tasted of brimstone and was not potable.
| Boromir: "Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing!" - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring II:10 |