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Broken, wooded country rising toward the Misty Mountains, cut by the East Road.
History
A wild region between Rivendell and Bree, haunted in the hobbits’ day by remaining Trolls.
Significance
A threshold on the road, where danger and fortune (the discovery of Orcrist and Glamdring) arrive together.
Events here
Figures of this place
CharacterBilbo Baggins
A respectable Shire hobbit who is swept into the quest of Erebor and becomes the first hobbit to bear the One Ring.
CharacterGandalf
A Wizard of the Istari, keeper of the Elven-ring Narya, and the chief architect of the resistance to Sauron.
CharacterThorin Oakenshield
The proud leader of the Company in The Hobbit, who reclaimed Erebor from Smaug and fell at the Battle of Five Armies.
CharacterAragorn
The heir of Isildur, raised in Rivendell in secret, who becomes King Elessar and reunites the kingdoms of Gondor and Arnor.
Sources
The Hobbit · 1937
Published in Tolkien’s lifetime. The primary narrative of Bilbo’s journey.
The Lord of the Rings · 1954–55
Three volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King.
