Lossarnach

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In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, Lossarnach was a region and fiefdom in southern Gondor.

Known as the 'Vale of flowers', it was a fertile region lying south of the White Mountains. It was the region closest to Minas Tirith.

It was populated by people of mixed Gondorian ancestry; thus many, if not most of them were shorter and darker-skinned than other folk of Gondor.

At the end of the Third Age, its lord was the old Forlong the Fat, who led two hundred men to the aid of the city. Forlong was killed in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, but many of his men survived and accompanied Aragorn Elessar on his way to the Black Gate, even though most of them were farmers.

Lossarnach was populated by many refugees from Ithilien and Osgiliath. During the War of the Ring, most women and children from Minas Tirith were sent there.

Besides Forlong, famous Lossarnachrim included the wise-woman Ioreth who served in the Houses of Healing of Minas Tirith, and Morwen Steelsheen, wife of King Thengel of Rohan.