Template:Merge JRRT Amon Hen (Sindarin for 'Hill of the Eye') is the name of a fictional hill in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth. In The Lord of the Rings Amon Hen is the place where the Fellowship of the Ring is broken.
The hill is located at the western banks of the river Anduin, at the southern end of the long lake Nen Hithoel above the Falls of Rauros. It is one of the three peaks at the Falls of Rauros, the others being Amon Lhaw, the Hill of the Ear, and Tol Brandir, an island located between the two hills. The Seat of Seeing was built there, serving as a watchtower for the northern borders of Gondor. It was constructed in the early days of Gondor, perhaps even as early as the Second AgeCN.
InThe Fellowship of the Ring, of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Fellowship, having been formed and set out from Rivendell, stopped at Amon Hen while travelling down the Anduin River from Lothlorien. It is at Amon Hen where Boromir attempts to take the One Ring from Frodo Baggins by force, as well as where Meriadoc Brandybuck(Merry) and Peregrin Took (Pippin) are captured by Orcs sent by Saruman to capture the Ring. Amon Hen is thus the location of the breaking of The Fellowship . After Frodo escapes from Boromir he sits upon the Seat of Seeing while still wearing the ring and is able to see events for hundreds of miles. From Amon Hen, Frodo and Samwise Gamgee cross Anduin on their way east to Mordor, Merry and Pippin are carried by Saruman's Orcs in the direction of his hold at Isengard, and the rest of The Fellowship, Gimli the dwarf, Legolas the elf, and Aragorn the man, set out in pursuit of the Orcs that took Merry and Pippin.
In the 2001 film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, directed by Peter Jackson a skirmish takes place called the 'Battle of Amon Hen' and the fellowship breaks up. It was filmed just outside Queenstown.
Amon Hen is also the name of the bulletin of The Tolkien Society.
