[radagastly]

Thanks for the translation, Gwathagor. It's unfortunate that the maps don't show more detail. Your guess is probably pretty close based on what we know, except for perhaps the 'later notes.' The maps in Fellowship and UT show no small streams flowing out of Mirkwood in that vicinity, but the Wilderland map in The Hobbit does show several small patches of the verticle lines that seem to indicate open water in most of Tolkien's maps. The only labels show them to be woodmen settlements, though, or nothing. It could qualify as the mouth of the Gladden river as it empties into Anduin (or across the Great River from there.) It's all still just guesses, though, unless someone finds something in Letters. I don't have that available.