Places in Middle-earth
The last ten updated places
- Bag End
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Updated: 01/30/12
Type: Buildings, Halls, Houses
Region: Bree/The Shire
- Location: The home of Bilbo Baggins, on The Hill in Hobbiton.
- Belladonna Took [never] had any adventures after she became Mrs. Bungo Baggins. Bungo, that was Bilbo's father, built the most luxurious hobbit-hole for her (and partly with her money) that was to be found either under The Hill or over The Hill or across The Water, and there they remained to the end...
- Dorthonion
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Updated: 01/20/12
Type: Kingdoms, Realms, Lands
Region: Beleriand & North
- Location: A great pine-forested plateau north of East Beleriand, between the plains of Ard-galen (Anfauglith) and Lothlann on the north, Ered Gorgoroth (Mountains of Terror) on the south, the Pass of Sirion on the west, and the Pass of Aglon on the east; realm of Angrod and Aegnor.
- Dorthonion (Taur-nu-Fuin) and the surrounding lands.[Into the Bay of Balar] the mighty river Sirion flowed down from the new-raised highlands northwards: Dorthonion, and the mountains about Hithlum. The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Ch 3, Of The Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melko...
- Woody End
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Updated: 01/14/12
Type: Mountains, Hills, Promontories
Region: Bree/The Shire
- Location: The wooded eastern end of the Green Hills in the Eastfarthing; the source of the Stock-brook.
- The Shire, showing Woody End in the eastern Green Hills.Soon they struck... the road to Woodhall, and Stock, and the Bucklebury Ferry. It... wound over the skirts of the Green Hills towards Woody End, a wild corner of the Eastfarthing. The Fellowship of the Ring, LoTR Book 1, Ch 3, Three Is Compa...
- Stock Road
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Updated: 01/12/12
Type: Roads, Lanes, Ways
Region: Bree/The Shire
- Location: A road originating in Tuckborough, running eastward through the Green Hills; one branch goes to Woodhall; the eastward terminus is at Stock, in the Marish.
- The Shire, showing the Stock Road running east from Tuckborough.They took the Stock Road over the hills and went towards the Woody End.... The Return of the King, LoTR Book 6, Ch 9, The Grey HavensSoon they struck a narrow road, that went rolling up and down, fading grey into the darkness ahead: ...
- Whitfurrows
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Updated: 01/12/12
Type: Cities, Towns, Settlements
Region: Bree/The Shire
- Location: A town along the East Road in the Eastfarthing, east of Frogmorton and north of the Yale.
- The Shire, showing Whitfurrows on the East Road, east of Frogmorton.Drawn by the Ring [Khamûl] goes to Hobbiton which he reaches at evening on Fri. Sep. 23rd. [His companion] keeps an eye on the East Road and Stock Road, lurking probably between the two, just south of Whitfurrows. From an unpubli...
- Withywindle
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Updated: 01/10/12
Type: Rivers & Lakes
Region: Arnor/Eriador/Lindon
- Location: A tributary of the Brandywine River; arises in the Barrow-downs and runs southwest through the Old Forest to Haysend; Old Man Willow lives along its banks.
- The Shire and its environs, showing the Withywindle in the Old Forest.'That,' said Merry, pointing with his hand, 'that is the line of the Withywindle. It comes down out of the Downs and flows south-west through the midst of the Forest to join the Brandywine below Haysend. We don't want to go that w...
- Helcaraxë
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Updated: 12/27/11
Type: Other Natural Formations
Region: Beleriand & North
- Location: The narrow strait between Araman, on the northern coast of Aman, and Middle-earth, known for its dangerous ice floes; submerged during the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age.
- [Between] the land of Aman that in the north curved eastward, and the east-shores of Endor (which is Middle-earth) that bore westward, there was a narrow strait, through which the chill waters of the Encircling Sea and the waves of Belegaer flowed together, and there were vast fogs and mists of deat...
- South Road to Nargothrond
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Updated: 12/26/11
Type: Roads, Lanes, Ways
Region: Beleriand & North
- Location: A road running southward from the Pass of Sirion to Nargothrond via the Crossings of Teiglin.
- Doriath and its environs, showing part of the South Road to Nargothrond. '[We] must come soon to the Highway that ran of old down from the Minas of King Finrod to Nargothrond.' Unfinished Tales, Part 1, Ch 1, Of Tuor and His Coming to GondolinDown the ancient road they came that led through the ...
- Teiglin
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Updated: 12/26/11
Type: Rivers & Lakes
Region: Beleriand & North
- Location: A river arising from three streams in the Mountains of Shadow, flowing southeast to the Crossings of Teiglin, then skirting the southern edge of the Forest of Brethil until it joins the Sirion at Nivrim; its tributaries are Glithui, Malduin, and Celebros.
- Brethil and its environs, showing the course of the Teiglin.Now the great and fair country of Beleriand lay on either side of the mighty river Sirion.... And following Sirion from north to south there lay upon the right hand in West Beleriand the Forest of Brethil between Sirion and Teiglin, and the...
- Crossings of Teiglin
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Updated: 12/26/11
Type: Fords, Bridges, Crossings
Region: Beleriand & North
- Location: The fords where the South Road from the Pass of Sirion to Nargothrond crosses the River Teiglin at the western edge of the Forest of Brethil, just north of Cabed-en-Aras (later called Cabed Naeramarth).
- Brethil and its environs, showing the Crossings of Teiglin. Orcs in greater numbers than before came down from the North and along the old South Road over Teiglin, troubling all the woods on the west borders of Doriath. Unfinished Tales, Part 1, Ch 2, Narn I Hîn Húrin: Of Mîm the DwarfDown the a...
