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Map of Bree-land, with the villages of Bree, Combe, Staddle, and Archet in the Chetwood. Items portrayed in this file depicts. Bree. creator. some value.
Bree-land, which contains Bree and a few other villages, is the only place where Hobbits and Men lived side by side. It was inspired by the name of the Buckinghamshire village of Brill , meaning "hill-hill", which Tolkien visited regularly in his early years at the University of Oxford , and informed by his passion for linguistics.
[T 2] Northeast of there is Bree, the only place where hobbits and Men live in the same villages. Further east from Bree is the hill of Weathertop with the ancient fortress of Amon Sûl, and then Rivendell, the home of Elrond. South from there is the ancient land of Hollin, once the elvish land of Eregion, where the Rings of Power were
Sketch map of the Shire. England and Englishness appear in Middle-earth, more or less thinly disguised, in the form of the Shire and the lands close to it, including Bree and Tom Bombadil's domain of the Old Forest and the Barrow-downs. [1] In England, a shire is a rural administrative region, a county.
[T 9] [T 12] The name Bree means "hill"; Tolkien justified the name by arranging the village and the surrounding Bree-land around a large hill, named Bree-hill. The name of the village Brill , in Buckinghamshire , a place that Tolkien often visited, [ T 13 ] [ 13 ] and which inspired him to create Bree, [ T 13 ] has the same meaning: Brill is a ...
The colour maps are useful, though." [3] Andy Blakeman reviewed Bree and the Barrow Downs for Imagine magazine, and stated that "Bree and the Barrow Downs is my favourite; the degree of characterisation in the descriptions of the inhabitants of Bree-land is heartening, and the Barrows themselves provide an interesting bit of adventure." [4]
J. R. R. Tolkien's design for his son Christopher's contour map on graph paper with handwritten annotations, of parts of Gondor and Mordor and the route taken by the Hobbits with the One Ring, and dates along that route, for an enlarged map in The Return of the King [5] Detail of finished contour map by Christopher Tolkien, drawn from his father's graph paper design.
Detail of the 1943 map, redrawn by Christopher Tolkien from his father's First Map and redrawn again for publication. Many details were later changed. Here, the land of Mor-dor is accessed from the Northwest by the pass of Kirith Ungol, direct from the Battle Plain .