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Thus he came to the battle of the Field of Celebrant, for that was the name of the green land that lay between Silverlode and Limlight. There the northern army of Gondor was in peril. Defeated in the Wold and cut off from the south, it had been driven across the Limlight, and was then suddenly assailed by the Orc-host that pressed it towards the Anduin. All hope was lost when, unlooked for, the Riders came out of the North and broke upon the rear of the enemy. Then the fortunes of battle were reversed, and the enemy was driven with slaughter over Limlight.
- Appendix A, Annals of the Kings and Rulers
The area between the rivers Silverlode and Limlight south of Lóthlorien, Parth Celebrant is where the decisive battle between Gondor and the Balcoth Easterlings took place in the late Third Age. The intervention of the Éothéod resulted in a Gondorian victory and the swearing of the Oath of Eorl, which granted the Éothéod the lands now known as Rohan.
