"The note above the name Díriel reads: ‘Here is a wide forest where many fugitive gnomes wander. Orcs come seldom.’ Cf. Q §14: ‘the woods about the River [Flend/Gelion], where aforetime were the hunting grounds of Damrod and Díriel.’"
HoME, The Shaping of Middle-Earth, Chapter IV: THE FIRST 'SILMARILLION' MAP
So Amrod and Amras definitely pulled some Vlad the Impaler stuff on the Orc bands that made it to their territory to instill such lasting fear, right.


















