Size of Rhovanion...

[Outlawstar15a2]

Ever since Dale got redone I've been having a blast coming up with my own quests one of the most popular if not the most popular is the whole Restoration of Rhovanion. It feels wonderful to take King Bard and whatever military I have and Crusade to restore the old kingdom I love it it is so damn awesome and by the same token it gives me focus and resources to boot. But I am a little confused I don't quite understand where the borders of the Kingdom of Rhovanion lies. The Rhovanion region seems to be all the land in the middle of the Misty Mountains, Ered Mithrin, Dagorlad, and Sea of Rhun minus Lorien and Greenwood. Ok, that seems a little big but what do I know. But for the Kingdom I can only guess where it's borders were. So where were the borders of the Kingdom of Rhovanion established and what provinces do I need to annex or capture to ensure I conquered the full kingdom?

[Werthead]

Tolkien isn't exact on the situation, but the Kingdom of Rhovanion appears to only have consisted of the lands bordered by Mirkwood, the River Running and the Sea of Rhun. Its southern border is unknown, but unlikely to have extended all the way south to Mordor..

[Hermes Trismegistos]

Don't let the region name Rhovanion fool you - that would be all the land east of the Misty Mountains (translated Wilderland) but not all these lands were actually ruled by the old kingdom, their naming as kings of Rhovanion was more like an claim to rule this whole area.

How far their kingdom reached is quite unclear. The core lands of Rhovanion were the provinces east of Mirkwood called Rhovanion in the game. But Gondor defeated all the Easterlings up to the sea of Rhun and gave the conquered lands to Rhovanion later - so I would say everything in the loose borders between Mirkwood, Celduin and Sea of Rhun is very likely, the larger version to Anduin and Ered Lithui are possible but it is doubtful whether they really ever ruled it. Maybe in large parts it was more a kind of loose suzerainity.

[desean]

I believe in vanilla TA its regions were the 2 provinces of Rhovanion in the game and uldonavan, i doubt they ever bordered mordor, those lands seem core easterling lands, and the provinces of wilderland and tirith-thoron seem to be old gondorian possessions before the wainraiders war, when gondor lost its lands in rhovanion and the kingdom of Rhovanion itself was destroyed and its people scattered and enslaved.
I also like to restore the destroyed kingdom, but with gondor, but i use the expanded map mod by skeletonofthewest, you should try it, adds at least 2 provinces that also belonged to Rhovanion (Eastern Rhovanion and East Blight)