When whispers of a Shadow spreading out of Angmar arose, an Elf named Lainedhel left the refuge of Imladris, also known as Rivendell, and marched into the Ettenmoors with all who would follow him. He sent out a call to the dwarves of Othrikar, the Rangers, and the Eglain, a tribe of Men who dwell in the wastes of the Lone-lands. As the Free Peoples of Eriador gathered beneath the banner of the Elves, they built the first of their fortresses: Glân Vraig.

The Elven citadel of Glân Vraig sits at the southeastern corner of the Ettenmoors, at the edge of a tangled forest, guarding the passage south through the Trollshaws to Rivendell. While not the largest of the fortresses of the Free Peoples, Glân Vraig is certainly the best-defended, making it the last bastion against the tide of Angmar should all else fail.

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In The Lord of the Rings Online^TM: Shadows of Angmar^TM, Glân Vraig is the starting location for any players who enter the Ettenmoors monster play zone on the side of the Free Peoples. It is considered a safe zone and cannot be captured by monster players. Glân Vraig is the creation of the LOTRO designers as the staging point for an alliance not unlike that between Elendil and Gil-galad against Sauron at the end of the Second Age.