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Location
The central and southern parts of Eriador; known as the River especially along the stretch that formed the Shire's eastern border
Race
Given this name by Hobbits
Culture
Source
Tributaries
Outflow
Into the Great Sea north of Eryn Vorn
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The River

A name among the Hobbits for the Brandywine

Map of the River, Brandywine

The River Baranduin was by no means the widest or longest of the rivers of Middle-earth, but it was the only large river to flow near the Shire, whose eastern border it formed. The Hobbits who lived there called it the 'Brandywine', but it was sometimes known simply as 'The River'. This form appears especially in the phrase 'from the Downs to the River', an expression of the Shire-hobbits that refers to the Far Downs and the Baranduin, the original western and eastern borders of their land.


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