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The Fellowship of the Ring begins in the village of Hobbiton, in the land of Eriador........
(1) Hobbiton — One of the older villages of the Shire. It spans
around the Hill of Hobbiton, near the Pool of Bywater,
in the Westfarthing.
Both Bywater and Hobbiton forms a single community.
(2) Bywater — A village in the Westfarthing of the Shire, astride
the Great East Road near the Pool of Bywater, and not far from Hobbiton-on-the-Hill.
(3) Buckland — A strip of wooded country, nominally part of the
Shire, though it lays on the eastern banks of the Brandywine River (Baranduin
River), between the River and the Old Forest. [ view
map of Buckland ]
(4) Old Forest — The name given in the Shire to the area of ancient
woodlan which lay east of Buckland, between the river Brandywine (Baranduin)
and the BarrowDowns.
(5) Bree — Being where Frodo and his companions stopped at The Prancing
Pony Inn; Frodo accidentally used the Ring and disappeared; the landlord, Barliman
Butterbur gave Frodo a belated message from Gandalf; and the four hobbits met
'Strider'.
(6)Weathertop — Once the site of an ancient watchtower, Weathertop
is where 'Strider' (Aragorn) and his hobbit-companions found a message scratched
on a stone by Gandalf and where they were attacked by the Black Riders.
Book II begins with Frodo awakeing in Rivendell, Home of Master Elrond Half-elven...
For the map of Book II of the Fellowship of the Ring, see the next page.
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