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Its Hobbiton mill was rebuilt larger and dirtier by Sharkey's men before Sam Gamgee restored it after the Scouring.", "coordinates": { "x": 715, "y": 902, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Water", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=the-water", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=the-water" }, { "id": "overhill", "name": "Overhill", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A small village north of Hobbiton, beyond the Hill, from which the fireworks of Bilbo's Long-Expected Party could be seen lighting up the sky in T.A. 3001. It lies near the southern eaves of Bindbole Wood in the Westfarthing.", "coordinates": { "x": 697, "y": 888, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Overhill", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=overhill", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=overhill" }, { "id": "mill-of-hobbiton", "name": "The Mill", "alternateNames": [], "type": "landmark", "region": "The Shire", "description": "The old water-mill on the Water below the Hill, long run by the Sandyman family. Sharkey's ruffians tore it down in T.A. 3019 and raised an ugly, smoke-belching replacement to feed Saruman's schemes; after the Scouring, Sam Gamgee had it pulled down and a proper mill rebuilt.", "coordinates": { "x": 702, "y": 901, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": 3019, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Hobbiton", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "The old mill is demolished and replaced by an ugly steam-mill under Sharkey's rule." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=mill-of-hobbiton", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=mill-of-hobbiton" }, { "id": "party-field", "name": "Party Field", "alternateNames": [ "The Party Tree" ], "type": "landmark", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A field beside Bagshot Row and the Hobbiton road where Bilbo Baggins held his enormous birthday party for one hundred and forty-four guests in T.A. 3001, pitching a great pavilion over and around the old Party Tree. Sharkey's men felled the tree in T.A. 3019; Sam later planted a Mallorn sapling there from Galadriel's gift, the only one to bloom west of the Sea.", "coordinates": { "x": 700, "y": 899, "approximate": true }, "position": { "kind": "display-offset", "note": "The field is shown separately from Bag End for readability. Its map spacing is illustrative, not a measured distance." }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 3001, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Party_Field", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3001, "absoluteYear": 3001, "description": "Bilbo's Long-Expected Party is held in the Party Field." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=party-field", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=party-field" }, { "id": "battle-of-bywater", "name": "Battle of Bywater (site)", "alternateNames": [], "type": "battle", "region": "The Shire", "description": "On a banked stretch of the Bywater Road on 3 November T.A. 3019, Hobbits led by Merry and Pippin trapped Sharkey's ruffians. Nearly seventy ruffians were killed and twelve captured; nineteen Hobbits died and about thirty were wounded. This was the last battle of the War of the Ring.", "coordinates": { "x": 706, "y": 906, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 3019, "toAbsoluteYear": 3019, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Battle_of_Bywater", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "Hobbits defeat Saruman's ruffians, ending the occupation of the Shire." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=battle-of-bywater", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=battle-of-bywater" }, { "id": "oatbarton", "name": "Oatbarton", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A farming village of the Northfarthing linked to the East Road by the Northway, its name recalling the great oat-farms of the surrounding moorland. One of the Shire's more remote settlements, it lies well north of Long Cleeve and the other Northfarthing villages.", "coordinates": { "x": 700, "y": 815, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Oatbarton", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=oatbarton", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=oatbarton" }, { "id": "long-cleeve", "name": "Long Cleeve", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "The northernmost village of consequence in the Shire, seat of the North-took family, a branch of the Tooks descended from Bandobras \"Bullroarer\" Took. Diamond of Long Cleeve, who married Peregrin Took in the Fourth Age, came from here.", "coordinates": { "x": 705, "y": 828, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Long_Cleeve", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=long-cleeve", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=long-cleeve" }, { "id": "hardbottle", "name": "Hardbottle", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A village of the stony northern Shire, home of the Bracegirdle family. Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, born a Bracegirdle, returned here to her kin after her release from the Lockholes at Michel Delving following the Scouring of the Shire in T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 670, "y": 815, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Hardbottle", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=hardbottle", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=hardbottle" }, { "id": "gamwich", "name": "Gamwich", "alternateNames": [ "Gammidge" ], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A village of uncertain location near the Westfarthing's northern border, from which the roper Hamfast Gamwich took his name — later softened to \"Gammidge\" and, through his descendants' move to Tighfield, ultimately giving rise to the surname Gamgee borne by Samwise Gamgee.", "coordinates": { "x": 663, "y": 850, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Gamwich", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=gamwich", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=gamwich" }, { "id": "tighfield", "name": "Tighfield", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A village of unrecorded location, home for generations to the Gammidge and Roper families' rope-walk. Wiseman Gamwich settled here about two centuries before the War of the Ring; his descendant Hamfast \"the Gaffer\" Gamgee left Tighfield's ropery for a gardener's life in Hobbiton, and became father to Samwise Gamgee.", "coordinates": { "x": 683, "y": 842, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Tighfield", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=tighfield", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=tighfield" }, { "id": "norbourn", "name": "Norbourn", "alternateNames": [], "type": "river", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A stream of the Northfarthing whose full course is imperfectly recorded, running near the Green Hills of the far north toward the Brandywine. Greenfields, site of the Battle of Greenfields in T.A. 2747, lay between the Norbourn and the Brandywine.", "coordinates": { "x": 705, "y": 825, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Norbourn", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=norbourn", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=norbourn" }, { "id": "greenfields", "name": "Greenfields", "alternateNames": [], "type": "battle", "region": "The Shire", "description": "Open country of the Northfarthing between the Norbourn and the Brandywine where, in T.A. 2747, an Orc-band down from Mount Gram invaded the Shire and was destroyed by Bandobras \"Bullroarer\" Took, who felled the goblin-chieftain Golfimbul with a club — the only battle fought in the Shire before the War of the Ring.", "coordinates": { "x": 715, "y": 830, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 2747, "toAbsoluteYear": 2747, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Greenfields", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 2747, "absoluteYear": 2747, "description": "Bandobras \"Bullroarer\" Took defeats an Orc-invasion at the Battle of Greenfields, slaying Golfimbul." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=greenfields", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=greenfields" }, { "id": "bindbole-wood", "name": "Bindbole Wood", "alternateNames": [], "type": "wood", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A small wood in the southern Northfarthing, north of Hobbiton and Overhill, whose name blends \"bind\" and \"bole\" (tree-trunk). It marks the transition from the settled Westfarthing farmland to the wilder northern moors of the Shire.", "coordinates": { "x": 693, "y": 865, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Bindbole_Wood", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=bindbole-wood", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=bindbole-wood" }, { "id": "hills-of-scary", "name": "Hills of Scary", "alternateNames": [], "type": "hills", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A stony, cave-riddled upland forming the northern part of the Eastfarthing, honeycombed with quarries that supplied much of the Shire's building stone. The village of Scary and the hidden burrows of Brockenborings lie among its rock-holes, which sheltered Fredegar Bolger's resistance during Sharkey's occupation.", "coordinates": { "x": 738, "y": 845, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Hills_of_Scary", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=hills-of-scary", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=hills-of-scary" }, { "id": "scary", "name": "Scary", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A quarrying village amid the Hills of Scary in the northern Eastfarthing, which gave the hills their name. During the occupation of the Shire in T.A. 3019, Sharkey's ruffians stored plunder in its quarries, until Fredegar Bolger's rebels harried them from the surrounding rock-holes.", "coordinates": { "x": 740, "y": 848, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Scary", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=scary", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=scary" }, { "id": "brockenborings", "name": "Brockenborings", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A cluster of badger-burrow-like tunnels in the hilly Scary district of the northern Eastfarthing, whose name means roughly \"badger-diggings.\" Fredegar Bolger and a band of Hobbit outlaws hid here from Sharkey's ruffians during the occupation of the Shire in T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 745, "y": 850, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Brockenborings", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=brockenborings", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=brockenborings" }, { "id": "quarry", "name": "Quarry", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A stone-quarry, or perhaps a small settlement, in the northern Eastfarthing between Scary and the Brandywine. Its unusually Westron-sounding name has puzzled scholars, since most Shire place-names derive from Old English or Celtic roots.", "coordinates": { "x": 747, "y": 860, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Quarry", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=quarry", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=quarry" }, { "id": "dwaling", "name": "Dwaling", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "The Shire's northernmost village of note, lying just north of the Hills of Scary in the far Eastfarthing. Remote even by Northfarthing standards, it marked the edge of settled Hobbit country before the empty northern moors.", "coordinates": { "x": 735, "y": 825, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Dwaling", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=dwaling", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=dwaling" }, { "id": "needlehole", "name": "Needlehole", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A village in a deep valley of the north-western Westfarthing, near the source of the Water and not far from Nobottle and Rushock Bog. One of the quieter, more out-of-the-way corners of the Shire.", "coordinates": { "x": 665, "y": 865, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Needlehole", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=needlehole", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=needlehole" }, { "id": "nobottle", "name": "Nobottle", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A remote village west of Needlehole in the Westfarthing, its Old Hobbitish name suggesting a \"new dwelling.\" Small and poor, tucked near the Far Downs, it exemplifies the Shire's habit of naming even its humblest hamlets.", "coordinates": { "x": 648, "y": 868, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Nobottle", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=nobottle", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=nobottle" }, { "id": "little-delving", "name": "Little Delving", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A village near Michel Delving in the Westfarthing, its name distinguishing it as the smaller of the two \"Delvings.\" Connected to Waymeet and Michel Delving by local roads, it lies in the gentle downland west of Hobbiton.", "coordinates": { "x": 668, "y": 896, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Little_Delving", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=little-delving", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=little-delving" }, { "id": "michel-delving", "name": "Michel Delving", "alternateNames": [ "Michel Delving on the White Downs" ], "type": "town", "region": "The Shire", "description": "The chief town of the Shire, built into the White Downs and seat of the Mayor, the Shire's only elected official. Its Mathom-house holds the Shire's museum of curiosities, and its Lockholes were used as a prison by Sharkey's ruffians during the occupation of T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 672, "y": 905, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Michel_Delving", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "Mayor Will Whitfoot is imprisoned in the Lockholes by Sharkey's ruffians." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=michel-delving", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=michel-delving" }, { "id": "mathom-house", "name": "The Mathom-house", "alternateNames": [], "type": "house", "region": "The Shire", "description": "The Shire's only museum, at Michel Delving, where Hobbits deposited \"mathoms\" — things they had no use for but could not bear to throw away. It once displayed the gilded mail-shirt Bilbo Baggins brought back from Erebor and gave to the town, until Frodo later reclaimed it for the road to Mordor.", "coordinates": { "x": 673, "y": 905, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Mathom-house", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=mathom-house", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=mathom-house" }, { "id": "lockholes", "name": "The Lockholes", "alternateNames": [], "type": "cave", "region": "The Shire", "description": "Storage-tunnels dug near Michel Delving, never before used for their grim purpose until Sharkey's ruffians turned them into a prison during the occupation of the Shire in T.A. 3019, holding Mayor Will Whitfoot, Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, and other resisters until their liberation after the Battle of Bywater.", "coordinates": { "x": 671, "y": 906, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Lockholes", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "The Lockholes are used as a prison by Sharkey's men; freed after the Battle of Bywater." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=lockholes", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=lockholes" }, { "id": "white-downs", "name": "White Downs", "alternateNames": [], "type": "hills", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A range of chalky hills in the Westfarthing overlooking Michel Delving, into whose slopes the town is delved. Their pale soil gives them their name, and their high ground traditionally hosts the Shire's Free Fair at Midsummer.", "coordinates": { "x": 672, "y": 893, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/White_Downs", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=white-downs", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=white-downs" }, { "id": "waymeet", "name": "Waymeet", "alternateNames": [ "Waymoot" ], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A crossroads settlement in the Westfarthing where the East Road meets a road down from Little Delving and another up from Tookland and the Southfarthing — hence its name, \"the meeting of three ways.\" Ruffians mustered here before marching on Bywater in T.A. 3019, only to be crushed at the Battle of Bywater.", "coordinates": { "x": 685, "y": 902, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Waymeet", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "Ruffians muster at Waymeet before their defeat at the Battle of Bywater." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=waymeet", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=waymeet" }, { "id": "whitwell", "name": "Whitwell", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A village on the chalky Green Hills south of Waymeet and west of Tookbank, its name recalling the whitish soil of the district. Thain Paladin Took II, father of Peregrin Took, kept a farm here.", "coordinates": { "x": 679, "y": 923, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Whitwell", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=whitwell", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=whitwell" }, { "id": "greenholm", "name": "Greenholm", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A village of the Westmarch, home of Fastred, who wedded Elanor \"the Fair\" Gardner, daughter of Samwise Gamgee, in the early Fourth Age. The couple later moved to Undertowers near the Tower Hills, becoming the first Warden and Lady of the Westmarch.", "coordinates": { "x": 633, "y": 902, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 3053, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Greenholm", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=greenholm", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=greenholm" }, { "id": "undertowers", "name": "Undertowers", "alternateNames": [], "type": "hall", "region": "The Shire", "description": "The seat of the Fairbairn family, Wardens of the Westmarch, built near the Tower Hills after Fastred of Greenholm and Elanor Gardner settled there around F.A. 41 (S.R. 1462). One of the Shire's three great archive-houses alongside Brandy Hall and the Great Smials, it kept a copy of the Red Book of Westmarch.", "coordinates": { "x": 618, "y": 899, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 3062, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Undertowers", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "FoA", "year": 41, "absoluteYear": 3062, "description": "Fastred and Elanor Fairbairn found Undertowers as seat of the Wardens of Westmarch." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=undertowers", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=undertowers" }, { "id": "far-downs", "name": "Far Downs", "alternateNames": [], "type": "hills", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A range of hills marking the old western boundary of the Shire before the Westmarch was added, lying between the Tower Hills and the White Downs. From their heights the Tower Hills, and on clear days a distant gleam of the Sea beyond, could reputedly be glimpsed.", "coordinates": { "x": 650, "y": 900, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Far_Downs", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=far-downs", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=far-downs" }, { "id": "tower-hills", "name": "Tower Hills", "alternateNames": [ "Emyn Beraid" ], "type": "hills", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A range of hills west of the Far Downs, crowned by the three White Towers built by the Elves of Lindon, the tallest of which, Elostirion, held a palantír that looked only west across the Sea. After the Westmarch was granted to the Shire, the hills lay within Hobbit country for the first time.", "coordinates": { "x": 612, "y": 895, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits", "Elves" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Tower_Hills", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=tower-hills", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=tower-hills" }, { "id": "elostirion", "name": "Elostirion", "alternateNames": [], "type": "tower", "region": "The Shire", "description": "The tallest and westernmost of the three White Towers on the Tower Hills, built by Gil-galad as a gift to Elendil. It alone held one of the palantíri, which looked only toward Tol Eressëa across the Sea; the stone remained there until Círdan removed it near the Third Age's end for Elrond and Galadriel's departure. Hobbits believed the Sea could be glimpsed from its summit.", "coordinates": { "x": 606, "y": 893, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": -121, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Elves" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Elostirion", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=elostirion", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=elostirion" }, { "id": "rushock-bog", "name": "Rushock Bog", "alternateNames": [], "type": "marsh", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A swampy stretch of the Water in the Westfarthing, south of Needlehole and north-west of Hobbiton, marked on the map \"A Part of the Shire.\" A minor hazard for travellers off the main roads rather than a place of any settlement.", "coordinates": { "x": 668, "y": 875, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Rushock_Bog", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=rushock-bog", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=rushock-bog" }, { "id": "tuckborough", "name": "Tuckborough", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "The chief village of Tookland in the Green Hill Country, seat of the Took family and the Thain of the Shire, built around and beneath the Great Smials. Merry Brandybuck and Pippin Took mustered the Shire's resistance from here during the Battle of Bywater in T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 700, "y": 922, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Tuckborough", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=tuckborough", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=tuckborough" }, { "id": "great-smials", "name": "The Great Smials", "alternateNames": [], "type": "hall", "region": "The Shire", "description": "The vast ancestral hall of the Took family at Tuckborough, one of the Shire's three great archive-houses alongside Brandy Hall and Undertowers. Seat of the Thain, it was home to the Old Took (Gerontius), Paladin Took II, and, after the War of the Ring, Thain Peregrin I.", "coordinates": { "x": 699, "y": 923, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 2683, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Great_Smials", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=great-smials", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=great-smials" }, { "id": "tookbank", "name": "Tookbank", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A small village of Tookland in the Green Hill Country, not far west of Tuckborough, its name recalling its position on land held by the Took family. Like its larger neighbour, it lay within the Thain's own folkland and shared in Tookland's reputation for producing the Shire's more adventurous Hobbits.", "coordinates": { "x": 686, "y": 919, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Tookbank", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=tookbank", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=tookbank" }, { "id": "pincup", "name": "Pincup", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A village on the southern slopes of the Green Hill Country, in the northern corner of the Southfarthing a few miles south of the Three-Farthing Stone, linked to Longbottom by a single road.", "coordinates": { "x": 706, "y": 948, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Pincup", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=pincup", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=pincup" }, { "id": "longbottom", "name": "Longbottom", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A village in the warm Southfarthing where Tobold Hornblower first grew the true pipe-weed in his garden around T.A. 2670. Longbottom Leaf became the finest and most celebrated pipe-weed of the Shire, famous even beyond its borders — Saruman himself was known to enjoy it.", "coordinates": { "x": 712, "y": 967, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Longbottom", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 2670, "absoluteYear": 2670, "description": "Tobold Hornblower first cultivates pipe-weed at Longbottom." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=longbottom", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=longbottom" }, { "id": "sackville", "name": "Sackville", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A minor locality of the Southfarthing lending its name to the well-to-do Sackville family, whose marriage into the Bagginses produced Otho and Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, longtime rivals of Bilbo and Frodo for Bag End. Little else is recorded of the place itself in the old chronicles beyond its name.", "coordinates": { "x": 690, "y": 972, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Sackville", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=sackville", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=sackville" }, { "id": "frogmorton", "name": "Frogmorton", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A village on the East Road in the Eastfarthing, fourteen miles east of the Three-Farthing Stone, with a good inn well known to travellers. Frodo and his companions, disguised, passed anxiously through it in T.A. 3018 while being pursued, and Sharkey's men later held it during the occupation of the Shire.", "coordinates": { "x": 725, "y": 900, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Frogmorton", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=frogmorton", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=frogmorton" }, { "id": "floating-log-inn", "name": "The Floating Log", "alternateNames": [], "type": "inn", "region": "The Shire", "description": "An inn at Stock in the Eastfarthing, mentioned by Merry Brandybuck as a stop where he and Fredegar Bolger planned to await Frodo before his abrupt change of route toward the Old Forest in September T.A. 3018.", "coordinates": { "x": 746, "y": 932, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Floating_Log", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=floating-log-inn", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=floating-log-inn" }, { "id": "whitfurrows", "name": "Whitfurrows", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A village on the East Road in the Eastfarthing, south of Budgeford and the Bridgefields, along the Water. A quiet farming settlement between Frogmorton and the Brandywine Bridge, it saw ruffian traffic pass along the Road during Sharkey's occupation of the Shire in T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 736, "y": 897, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Whitfurrows", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=whitfurrows", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=whitfurrows" }, { "id": "budgeford", "name": "Budgeford", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "The seat of the Bolger family in the Bridgefields district of the Eastfarthing, north of Whitfurrows on a tributary of the Water, close to the Brandywine Bridge. Home village of Fredegar \"Fatty\" Bolger, who led Hobbit resistance from Brockenborings during the Scouring.", "coordinates": { "x": 743, "y": 888, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Budgeford", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=budgeford", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=budgeford" }, { "id": "brandywine-bridge", "name": "Brandywine Bridge", "alternateNames": [ "Bridge of Stonebows" ], "type": "bridge", "region": "The Shire", "description": "The great stone bridge carrying the East Road over the Brandywine into Buckland, the only crossing for wheeled traffic between the Shire and Bree-land. Sharkey's ruffians fortified a gate here during their occupation in T.A. 3019, barring Hobbits' return until Frodo and his companions broke through.", "coordinates": { "x": 752, "y": 893, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": -121, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Brandywine_Bridge", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin force the ruffians' gate at the Bridge on their return." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=brandywine-bridge", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=brandywine-bridge" }, { "id": "girdley-island", "name": "Girdley Island", "alternateNames": [], "type": "island", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A small island in the Brandywine north of the Bridge, on the Buckland side of the river, of little note beyond its appearance on Shire maps as one of the few named islands of the river.", "coordinates": { "x": 753, "y": 880, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Girdley_Island", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=girdley-island", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=girdley-island" }, { "id": "stock", "name": "Stock", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A village of the Eastfarthing near the Marish, close to the Bucklebury Ferry, on the road Frodo's party used to slip quietly out of the Shire in T.A. 3018 rather than take the open East Road. Home of the Golden Perch, reputed to serve the best beer in the Eastfarthing.", "coordinates": { "x": 746, "y": 933, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Stock", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=stock", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=stock" }, { "id": "golden-perch-inn", "name": "The Golden Perch", "alternateNames": [], "type": "inn", "region": "The Shire", "description": "An inn at Stock famed throughout the Eastfarthing for its beer — Pippin Took called it the best in the Shire, though Sam thought it a long walk for a drink. It featured in Frodo's cover story of moving to Buckland in T.A. 3018.", "coordinates": { "x": 747, "y": 934, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Golden_Perch", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=golden-perch-inn", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=golden-perch-inn" }, { "id": "bamfurlong", "name": "Bamfurlong", "alternateNames": [], "type": "house", "region": "The Shire", "description": "Farmer Maggot's farmstead in the Marish, ringed by mushroom-fields he guarded fiercely with his dogs. Frodo, Sam and Pippin sheltered here fleeing a Black Rider in September T.A. 3018, and Maggot ferried them onward to the Bucklebury Ferry with news for Buckland.", "coordinates": { "x": 744, "y": 942, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Bamfurlong", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3018, "absoluteYear": 3018, "description": "Frodo and his companions take refuge with Farmer Maggot from a Ringwraith." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=bamfurlong", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=bamfurlong" }, { "id": "woodhall", "name": "Woodhall", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A village on the Stock road in the Eastfarthing near the edge of Woody End, passed by Frodo's company on their way toward the Bucklebury Ferry in T.A. 3018, avoiding the watched East Road.", "coordinates": { "x": 733, "y": 928, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Woodhall", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=woodhall", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=woodhall" }, { "id": "rushey", "name": "Rushey", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A small village of the Marish on the Stock road between Woodhall and the Bucklebury Ferry, in the low, rush-grown country near the Brandywine. Frodo's company passed near it cross-country in September T.A. 3018 on their quiet route out of the Shire toward Buckland.", "coordinates": { "x": 740, "y": 937, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Rushey", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=rushey", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=rushey" }, { "id": "deephallow", "name": "Deephallow", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A village on the Brandywine's western bank just north of where the Shirebourn flows in, opposite Haysend at the southern tip of Buckland, on the Shire's eastern border. Its name, meaning a deep hollow or nook, describes its low-lying position among the river's marshy margins.", "coordinates": { "x": 760, "y": 948, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Deephallow", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=deephallow", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=deephallow" }, { "id": "willowbottom", "name": "Willowbottom", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A village of the Eastfarthing near Woody End, standing where Thistle Brook flows into the River Shirebourn, in the gentle valley country known as the Yale. Its willow-lined banks and low ground give the settlement its descriptive Old English name.", "coordinates": { "x": 728, "y": 948, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1601, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Willowbottom", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=willowbottom", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=willowbottom" }, { "id": "thistle-brook", "name": "Thistle Brook", "alternateNames": [], "type": "river", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A stream of the Eastfarthing flowing south-east around Woody End and through Willowbottom before joining the River Shirebourn, draining the wooded uplands south of the Three-Farthing Stone into the gentle river-country of the Yale.", "coordinates": { "x": 726, "y": 943, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Thistle_Brook", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=thistle-brook", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=thistle-brook" }, { "id": "shirebourn", "name": "Shirebourn", "alternateNames": [], "type": "river", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A lesser river rising in the Green Hill Country and running south-east to form the border between the Eastfarthing and Southfarthing, joined by Thistle Brook at Willowbottom before emptying into the Brandywine beneath Deephallow, where its mouth forms the Overbourn Marshes.", "coordinates": { "x": 740, "y": 953, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Shirebourn", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=shirebourn", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=shirebourn" }, { "id": "sarn-ford", "name": "Sarn Ford", "alternateNames": [ "Stony Ford" ], "type": "ford", "region": "The Shire", "description": "The stony ford where the Greenway crosses the River Baranduin south of the Shire, once guarded by a small fort of the Dúnedain of Cardolan, later watched by the Rangers of the North. 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Home in the Third Age to the Beornings and Woodmen, and formerly to Stoor-hobbits and the early Éothéod, with Silvan Elves, Northmen and the Dwarves of Khazad-dûm all passing through its meadows over the ages.", "coordinates": { "x": 1260, "y": 900, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Men", "Hobbits", "Elves", "Beornings" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Vales_of_Anduin", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=vales-of-anduin", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=vales-of-anduin" }, { "id": "anduin", "name": "Anduin", "alternateNames": [ "The Great River", "Gwathir" ], "type": "river", "region": "Rhovanion", "description": "The greatest river of Middle-earth, rising from the Langwell and Greylin below the Grey Mountains and flowing over a thousand miles south to the Bay of Belfalas. 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Orcs and wargs raided them for slaves before the Battle of Five Armies; afterward the Woodmen felled trees and rebuilt in safety, and some joined Beorn's folk at Yule.", "coordinates": { "x": 1280, "y": 900, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Woodmen" ], "book": "The Hobbit", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Woodmen", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 2941, "absoluteYear": 2941, "description": "Orcs raid the Woodmen, mistaking Thorin's Company for their scouts" } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=woodmens-settlements", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=woodmens-settlements" }, { "id": "gladden-stoors", "name": "Stoor-holes of the Gladden", "alternateNames": [], "type": "village", "region": "Vales of Anduin", "description": "Riverside hobbit-holes dug into the banks of the Gladden Fields by Stoors who returned to Wilderland around T.A. 1356 and became a fisher-folk, boating and swimming on the Anduin. Ruled by a matriarch when Sméagol and Déagol lived there, the dwindling community vanished from history before the War of the Ring.", "coordinates": { "x": 1280, "y": 1010, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1356, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Stoors" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Stoor", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=gladden-stoors", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=gladden-stoors" }, { "id": "field-of-celebrant", "name": "Field of Celebrant", "alternateNames": [], "type": "plain", "region": "Rhovanion", "description": "The green plain between the Silverlode and the Limlight, south of Lothlórien, where in April T.A. 2510 the Balchoth and their Orc allies nearly destroyed Gondor's army of Calenardhon until Eorl the Young arrived with the Éothéod's riders and won a great victory, leading to the founding of Rohan.", "coordinates": { "x": 1355, "y": 1235, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Field_of_Celebrant", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 2510, "absoluteYear": 2510, "description": "Battle of the Field of Celebrant: Eorl the Young's riders save Gondor's army from the Balchoth" } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=field-of-celebrant", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=field-of-celebrant" }, { "id": "limlight", "name": "Limlight", "alternateNames": [], "type": "river", "region": "Rhovanion", "description": "A river flowing down from the Misty Mountains to join the Anduin below Lothlórien, marking the northern boundary of Rohan and the southern edge of the Field of Celebrant and the Wold. No bridge or ford crossed it, leaving the wild land beyond largely unwatched.", "coordinates": { "x": 1355, "y": 1292, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Limlight", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=limlight", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=limlight" }, { "id": "undeeps", "name": "Undeeps", "alternateNames": [], "type": "landmark", "region": "Rhovanion", "description": "A pair of great horseshoe bends where the Anduin loops back on itself south of the Wold, shallow enough at times to be forded. 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Thranduil's Silvan Elves held its northern reaches while the shadow spread from the south. 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Thorin's Company entered here in T.A. 2941 after Beorn warned them to stay on the path. The Old Forest Road lay farther south.", "coordinates": { "x": 1306, "y": 826, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Hobbit", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Forest_Gate", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 2941, "absoluteYear": 2941, "description": "Thorin's Company enters Mirkwood here" } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=forest-gate", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=forest-gate" }, { "id": "old-forest-road", "name": "Old Forest Road", "alternateNames": [ "Men-i-Naugrim", "Dwarf-road" ], "type": "road", "region": "Mirkwood", "description": "The ancient Dwarf-road across Mirkwood, south of the Elf-path. By T.A. 2941 its eastern reaches were unsafe and disused; Beorn directed Thorin's Company to the northern path instead. 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Sauron forged the One Ring in its fires, and only there can the Ring be unmade. Sauron's Road climbs its eastern face to the Sammath Naur. It burst into flame again at Sauron's return and is stilled only with the Ring's destruction.", "coordinates": { "x": 1700, "y": 1595, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Mount_Doom", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "SA", "year": 1600, "absoluteYear": -1841, "description": "c. 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Isildur refused to cast the Ring into it in S.A. 3441; on 25 March T.A. 3019 Gollum fell into it with the Ring, and the Ring was unmade.", "coordinates": { "x": 1701, "y": 1593, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Cracks_of_Doom", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "SA", "year": 3441, "absoluteYear": 0, "description": "Isildur, urged by Elrond and Círdan, refuses to cast the Ring into the fire." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "25 March: Gollum falls into the Cracks of Doom with the One Ring." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=cracks-of-doom", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=cracks-of-doom" }, { "id": "destruction-of-the-ring", "name": "Destruction of the One Ring", "alternateNames": [], "type": "landmark", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The site of the ending of the Quest of the Ring, in the Sammath Naur on 25 March T.A. 3019. 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A land of ash, cinder and pitted craters, riddled with orc-camps, arms-deeps and slave-pits, it is crossed by Sauron's roads running from the Morannon, the Isenmouthe and the Morgul Pass to the Dark Tower. Frodo and Sam crossed it to Orodruin in March T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 1720, "y": 1640, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Orcs", "Trolls", "Men" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Gorgoroth", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "SA", "year": 3434, "absoluteYear": -7, "description": "The Last Alliance enters Gorgoroth and lays siege to Barad-dûr." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "19–24 March: Frodo and Sam cross the plain from the Isenmouthe road to Mount Doom." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=gorgoroth", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=gorgoroth" }, { "id": "lithlad", "name": "Lithlad", "alternateNames": [ "Plain of Ash", "Plains of Lithlad" ], "type": "plain", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The 'Plain of Ash', a mournful plain of eastern Mordor lying south of the Ered Lithui and east of the Plateau of Gorgoroth, stretching away toward Rhûn. Together with Gorgoroth it is walled about by the two great mountain ranges of Mordor. It is named only once, in the account of Frodo's approach to the Black Gate, and nothing is told of who or what dwells there.", "coordinates": { "x": 1900, "y": 1560, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Lithlad", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=lithlad", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=lithlad" }, { "id": "nurn", "name": "Nurn", "alternateNames": [ "Land of Nurn" ], "type": "region", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The southern and eastern lowlands of Mordor about the Sea of Núrnen, far from the fumes of Mount Doom. Unlike the ash-deserts of the north, Nurn is fertile: its great fields are tilled by slaves from Sauron's conquered peoples to feed the armies of Mordor. Its rivers flow down from the Ephel Dúath and from a spur of the Ered Lithui. After the War of the Ring King Elessar frees the slaves and gives them Nurn as their own.", "coordinates": { "x": 1830, "y": 1795, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Men", "Orcs" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Nurn", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "King Elessar frees the slaves of Mordor and gives them the lands about Lake Núrnen." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=nurn", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=nurn" }, { "id": "sea-of-nurnen", "name": "Sea of Núrnen", "alternateNames": [ "Núrnen", "Lake Núrnen", "Sad Water" ], "type": "lake", "region": "Mordor", "description": "A great bitter inland sea in the south-east of Mordor, in the land of Nurn, fed by four rivers from the Ephel Dúath and the Ered Lithui. Its Sindarin name means 'sad water', and its dark waters are not fit to drink, yet the lands about it are fertile enough to bear the vast slave-tilled fields that feed Sauron's armies. After the War of the Ring these lands are given to the freed slaves.", "coordinates": { "x": 1830, "y": 1730, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Men" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/N%C3%BArnen", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "After the fall of Sauron, King Elessar gives the lands about Núrnen to the freed slaves of Mordor." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=sea-of-nurnen", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=sea-of-nurnen" }, { "id": "ered-lithui", "name": "Ered Lithui", "alternateNames": [ "Ash Mountains", "Mountains of Ash", "Ashen Mountains" ], "type": "range", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The Ash Mountains, the long grey range that walls Mordor on the north. From the Morannon, where it meets the Ephel Dúath, it runs eastward for hundreds of miles toward the Sea of Rhûn, and a spur reaches south toward Núrnen. Barad-dûr stands beneath its western end, and in its shadow lie the plains of Gorgoroth and Lithlad. Its gullies and passes are guarded by the orc-holds of Sauron.", "coordinates": { "x": 1850, "y": 1505, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Orcs" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Ered_Lithui", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=ered-lithui", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=ered-lithui" }, { "id": "ephel-duath", "name": "Ephel Dúath", "alternateNames": [ "Mountains of Shadow", "Fence of Shadow", "Shadowy Mountains" ], "type": "range", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The Mountains of Shadow, the great western and southern fence of Mordor. From the Morannon they run south along the border of Ithilien, then bend east to enclose Nurn. Their outer wall is cleft by the Morgul Vale and the high pass of Cirith Ungol; behind their northern stretch runs the lesser ridge of the Morgai. The Harnen rises on their southern slopes. Orc-holds such as Durthang and the Tower of Cirith Ungol guard them.", "coordinates": { "x": 1618, "y": 1740, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Orcs" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Ephel_D%C3%BAath", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=ephel-duath", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=ephel-duath" }, { "id": "morannon", "name": "Morannon", "alternateNames": [ "The Black Gate", "Black Gate of Mordor", "Gates of Mordor" ], "type": "gate", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The Black Gate of Mordor: a rampart of stone with a single great gate of iron, built by Sauron across the mouth of Cirith Gorgor, the Haunted Pass, where the Ered Lithui and the Ephel Dúath meet. It is flanked by the Towers of the Teeth and faces the battle-plain of Dagorlad. Frodo turned aside from it in March T.A. 3019; on 25 March the Host of the West fought its last battle before it, and it fell in ruin.", "coordinates": { "x": 1650, "y": 1525, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": -2441, "toAbsoluteYear": 3019, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Orcs", "Trolls", "Men" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Morannon", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "SA", "year": 3434, "absoluteYear": -7, "description": "The Last Alliance forces the pass after its victory on Dagorlad." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "5 March: Frodo and Sam hide in sight of the Morannon and turn south at dusk." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "25 March: the Battle of the Morannon; the Gate is cast down at the Ring's destruction." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=morannon", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=morannon" }, { "id": "towers-of-the-teeth", "name": "Towers of the Teeth", "alternateNames": [ "Teeth of Mordor", "Narchost and Carchost" ], "type": "tower", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The two towers, Narchost and Carchost, standing on the hills either side of the Morannon. The Men of Gondor built them early in the Third Age to keep watch on Mordor after Sauron's fall, but the watch failed after the Great Plague and Sauron's servants repaired and garrisoned them. From their windows sleepless eyes watch the Desolation before the Gate. They crash down in the earthquake of 25 March T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 1648, "y": 1522, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1, "toAbsoluteYear": 3019, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Orcs", "Men" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Towers_of_the_Teeth", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 1640, "absoluteYear": 1640, "description": "c. 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With its twin Carchost it crashes into ruin when the Ring is destroyed on 25 March T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 1645, "y": 1521, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1, "toAbsoluteYear": 3019, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Orcs" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Narchost", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "25 March: Narchost falls in the earthquake that follows the Ring's destruction." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=narchost", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=narchost" }, { "id": "carchost", "name": "Carchost", "alternateNames": [], "type": "tower", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The eastern of the two Towers of the Teeth, standing on the height east of the Morannon at the mouth of Cirith Gorgor. Like its twin Narchost it was built by Gondor early in the Third Age to guard against Sauron's return, fell into decay when the watch was abandoned, and was garrisoned again by Orcs. It falls in ruin on 25 March T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 1652, "y": 1521, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1, "toAbsoluteYear": 3019, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Orcs" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Carchost", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "25 March: Carchost falls in the earthquake that follows the Ring's destruction." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=carchost", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=carchost" }, { "id": "cirith-gorgor", "name": "Cirith Gorgor", "alternateNames": [ "The Haunted Pass" ], "type": "pass", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The Haunted Pass, the narrow gap where the Ered Lithui and the Ephel Dúath meet at Mordor's north-western corner, and the chief entrance to the Black Land. The Morannon bars its mouth and the Towers of the Teeth stand on the heights either side; behind it opens the valley of Udûn. Through it Sauron's armies march out to Dagorlad and Ithilien, and through it the Host of Mordor issued on 25 March T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 1655, "y": 1535, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Orcs" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Cirith_Gorgor", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "SA", "year": 3434, "absoluteYear": -7, "description": "The Last Alliance passes through into Mordor after the Battle of Dagorlad." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "25 March: the armies of Mordor pour out through the pass against the Host of the West." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=cirith-gorgor", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=cirith-gorgor" }, { "id": "udun", "name": "Udûn", "alternateNames": [ "Valley of Udûn", "Plain of Udûn" ], "type": "valley", "region": "Mordor", "description": "A deep, wide valley just inside the Black Gate, enclosed by arms of the Ered Lithui and the Ephel Dúath. 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Sauron's armies mustered here before the Battle of the Morannon.", "coordinates": { "x": 1665, "y": 1548, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Orcs", "Trolls", "Men" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Ud%C3%BBn", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "March: the hosts of Mordor gather in Udûn before issuing from the Black Gate." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=udun", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=udun" }, { "id": "isenmouthe", "name": "Isenmouthe", "alternateNames": [ "Carach Angren", "Iron-mouth", "Iron Jaws" ], "type": "pass", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The 'Iron Jaws': the narrow gap between arms of the Ered Lithui and the Ephel Dúath where the valley of Udûn opens onto Gorgoroth. It is barred by an earthen wall and a great ditch spanned by a single bridge, closed by a fence of pointed iron posts and watched by forts on the rocky spurs. 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Perhaps once a fortress of Gondor's watch on Mordor, by the end of the Third Age it is one of the many orc-holds of Sauron; its Sindarin name means 'dark oppression'. A steep road winds from it down to the Isenmouthe, along which an orc-company drove Frodo and Sam on 18 March T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 1660, "y": 1572, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Orcs" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Durthang", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "18 March: Frodo and Sam rest in sight of Durthang and are overtaken by its Orcs at nightfall." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=durthang", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=durthang" }, { "id": "morgai", "name": "Morgai", "alternateNames": [ "The Black Fence" ], "type": "range", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The 'Black Fence', a lower, jagged ridge running parallel to the Ephel Dúath along the inner side of Mordor's western wall, from near the Isenmouthe south past Cirith Ungol. Between the two lies a narrow trough-valley with a stream-bed, brambles and grey grass, the only living things in northern Mordor. Frodo and Sam walked north along this valley from 15 to 18 March T.A. 3019 to avoid the open plain of Gorgoroth.", "coordinates": { "x": 1640, "y": 1620, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Morgai", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "15–18 March: Frodo and Sam journey north along the Morgai valley from Cirith Ungol." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=morgai", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=morgai" }, { "id": "cirith-ungol", "name": "Cirith Ungol", "alternateNames": [ "Spider's Cleft", "Pass of the Spider", "The Nameless Pass", "Kirith Ungol" ], "type": "pass", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The 'Pass of the Spider', a high secret pass over the Ephel Dúath from the Morgul Vale into Mordor, north of the Morgul Pass. It is climbed by the Straight Stair and the Winding Stair, then a tunnel through Torech Ungol, the lair of Shelob, to the Cleft at the summit beneath the Tower of Cirith Ungol. Frodo and Sam, led by Gollum, crossed it on 12–13 March T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 1631, "y": 1651, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Orcs", "Spiders" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Cirith_Ungol", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "12 March: Gollum leads Frodo and Sam into Shelob's Lair." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "13 March: Frodo is captured by the Orcs of Cirith Ungol." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/places/cirith-ungol/", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=cirith-ungol" }, { "id": "cleft-of-cirith-ungol", "name": "The Cleft", "alternateNames": [ "Cleft of Cirith Ungol" ], "type": "pass", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The narrow notch at the summit of the pass of Cirith Ungol, between two horns of rock beyond the tunnel of Torech Ungol, from which the path drops down into Mordor beneath the Tower. Here Sam fought Shelob and found Frodo stung and bound on 13 March T.A. 3019, and here he took the Ring and the Phial before the Orcs of Shagrat and Gorbag carried Frodo away.", "coordinates": { "x": 1633, "y": 1650, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Cirith_Ungol", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "13 March: Sam wounds Shelob in the Cleft and takes the Ring from the stung Frodo." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=cleft-of-cirith-ungol", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=cleft-of-cirith-ungol" }, { "id": "tower-of-cirith-ungol", "name": "Tower of Cirith Ungol", "alternateNames": [ "Cirith Ungol" ], "type": "tower", "region": "Mordor", "description": "A fortress of three tiers and a turret built against the cliff on the Mordor side of the pass of Cirith Ungol, above the road down to the Morgul Pass. Gondor raised it after the Last Alliance to watch Mordor, but it has long been an orc-hold, its gate guarded by the Two Watchers. 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Filled with an evil vigilance, their unseen will bars the gate against any who would pass. Sam broke through it with the Phial of Galadriel on 14 March T.A. 3019; as the hobbits fled the next day the keystone of the arch fell and the Watchers wailed, summoning a Nazgûl.", "coordinates": { "x": 1636, "y": 1651, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": -121, "toAbsoluteYear": 3019, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Two_Watchers", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "14–15 March: Sam and Frodo pass the Watchers by the light of the Phial; the gate-arch collapses." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=two-watchers", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=two-watchers" }, { "id": "undergate", "name": "Undergate", "alternateNames": [ "Under-gate" ], "type": "gate", "region": "Mordor", "description": "A gate of brazen doors closing the Under-way, the tunnel that leads from Shelob's Lair beneath the pass up into the lowest floor of the Tower of Cirith Ungol. Through it the Orcs carried the stung and bound Frodo on 13 March T.A. 3019; Sam, following, found it locked and had to turn back through Torech Ungol and climb to the Tower by the outer gate.", "coordinates": { "x": 1633, "y": 1652, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": -121, "toAbsoluteYear": 3019, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Orcs" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Undergate", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "13 March: the Orcs bear Frodo through the Undergate; Sam is shut out." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=undergate", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=undergate" }, { "id": "torech-ungol", "name": "Torech Ungol", "alternateNames": [ "Shelob's Lair", "Spider's Lair" ], "type": "cave", "region": "Mordor", "description": "Shelob's Lair: a stinking tunnel and warren of caverns beneath the summit of the pass of Cirith Ungol, where Shelob the Great, last child of Ungoliant, has dwelt since before Sauron came to Mordor. The Orcs of the Tower use its side-passages at need. On 12–13 March T.A. 3019 Gollum led Frodo and Sam into it; Frodo was stung and bound, and Sam wounded Shelob with Sting and the Phial of Galadriel.", "coordinates": { "x": 1628, "y": 1653, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Spiders", "Orcs" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Torech_Ungol", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "12 March: Gollum leads the hobbits into Torech Ungol." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "13 March: Shelob stings Frodo; Sam drives her off, wounded." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=torech-ungol", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=torech-ungol" }, { "id": "stairs-of-cirith-ungol", "name": "Stairs of Cirith Ungol", "alternateNames": [ "The Stairs" ], "type": "landmark", "region": "Mordor", "description": "Two great stairways cut into the northern wall of the Morgul Vale, by which a secret path climbs from the Morgul-road toward the pass of Cirith Ungol. The Straight Stair rises almost sheer up the cliff; above it, after a long climbing path, the Winding Stair twists up through the crags to the tunnel of Torech Ungol. Gollum led Frodo and Sam up them on 10–11 March T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 1620, "y": 1655, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": -2441, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Stairs_of_Cirith_Ungol", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "10–11 March: Frodo, Sam and Gollum climb the Stairs after the Morgul-host sets forth." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=stairs-of-cirith-ungol", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=stairs-of-cirith-ungol" }, { "id": "straight-stair", "name": "Straight Stair", "alternateNames": [], "type": "landmark", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The lower of the two stairs of Cirith Ungol: a steep, almost vertical flight of many hundreds of worn steps cut into the cliff of the Morgul Vale's northern wall, climbing from near the Morgul-road up into a fold of the Ephel Dúath. Frodo, Sam and Gollum climbed it in the darkness on the night of 10 March T.A. 3019, after watching the Morgul-host march out.", "coordinates": { "x": 1614, "y": 1656, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": -2441, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Straight_Stair", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "10 March: the hobbits climb the Straight Stair by night." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=straight-stair", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=straight-stair" }, { "id": "winding-stair", "name": "Winding Stair", "alternateNames": [], "type": "landmark", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The upper of the two stairs of Cirith Ungol: a long, twisting stairway climbing through the crags of the Ephel Dúath above the Straight Stair, ending near the summit before the dark tunnel of Torech Ungol. Frodo and Sam climbed it on 11 March T.A. 3019, and near its top they rested and spoke of the tales they were in while Gollum crept away to Shelob.", "coordinates": { "x": 1623, "y": 1653, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": -2441, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Winding_Stair", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "11 March: Frodo and Sam climb the Winding Stair; Gollum visits Shelob." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=winding-stair", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=winding-stair" }, { "id": "minas-morgul", "name": "Minas Morgul", "alternateNames": [ "Minas Ithil", "Tower of the Moon", "Tower of the Rising Moon", "Tower of Sorcery", "Tower of Black Sorcery", "The Dead City" ], "type": "city", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The Dead City: once Minas Ithil, Tower of the Rising Moon, built by Isildur as Gondor's eastern fortress in a valley of the Ephel Dúath facing Minas Anor. Taken by the Nazgûl in T.A. 2002, it became Minas Morgul, the Tower of Sorcery, seat of the Witch-king. Its walls glow with a corpse-pale light, its gate gapes like a mouth, and a bridge of hideous statues crosses the Morgulduin before it. Its host marched on Minas Tirith in T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 1595, "y": 1652, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": -121, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Nazgûl", "Orcs", "Men", "Dúnedain" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Minas_Morgul", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "SA", "year": 3320, "absoluteYear": -121, "description": "Isildur founds Minas Ithil as the eastern fortress of Gondor." }, { "age": "SA", "year": 3429, "absoluteYear": -12, "description": "Sauron captures Minas Ithil; it is recovered after his fall." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 2002, "absoluteYear": 2002, "description": "The Nazgûl take Minas Ithil and its palantír; it becomes Minas Morgul." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 2050, "absoluteYear": 2050, "description": "King Eärnur rides to its gate to answer the Witch-king's challenge and is never seen again." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "10 March: the Morgul-host under the Witch-king marches out to besiege Minas Tirith." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/places/minas-morgul/", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=minas-morgul" }, { "id": "fall-of-minas-ithil", "name": "Fall of Minas Ithil", "alternateNames": [ "Siege of Minas Ithil" ], "type": "battle", "region": "Mordor", "description": "Site of the two captures of Minas Ithil. In S.A. 3429 Sauron seized the city and burned the White Tree, driving Isildur to seek Elendil; it was recovered after the Last Alliance. In T.A. 2000 the Nazgûl, leading masterless Men out of Mordor, besieged it in the reign of Eärnil II, and in 2002 they took it with its palantír. Thereafter it was Minas Morgul, and Gondor's kings ended with Eärnur in 2050.", "coordinates": { "x": 1596, "y": 1650, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": -12, "toAbsoluteYear": 2002, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Nazgûl", "Orcs", "Men", "Dúnedain" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Second_Fall_of_Minas_Ithil", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "SA", "year": 3429, "absoluteYear": -12, "description": "First fall: Sauron captures Minas Ithil." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 2000, "absoluteYear": 2000, "description": "The Nazgûl issue from Mordor and besiege Minas Ithil." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 2002, "absoluteYear": 2002, "description": "Second fall: Minas Ithil taken by the Nazgûl; the Ithil-stone captured." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=fall-of-minas-ithil", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=fall-of-minas-ithil" }, { "id": "morgul-vale", "name": "Morgul Vale", "alternateNames": [ "Imlad Morgul", "Valley of Sorcery", "Morgul Valley" ], "type": "valley", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The valley of the Morgulduin in the western Ephel Dúath, opening westward into Ithilien; at its mouth stands Minas Morgul. Once fair, it is now a place of dread: meads of pale, luminous, evil-smelling flowers line the steaming river, and its fumes daze the mind. The Morgul-road climbs the vale to the Morgul Pass. On 19 March T.A. 3019 the Host of the West halted here, burned the meads and broke the bridge.", "coordinates": { "x": 1602, "y": 1655, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Nazgûl", "Orcs" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Morgul_Vale", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 2002, "absoluteYear": 2002, "description": "The valley falls under the Nazgûl and becomes Imlad Morgul." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "10 March: Frodo, Sam and Gollum cross the vale as the Morgul-host marches out." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "19 March: the Host of the West halts in the vale, fires the meads and breaks the bridge." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=morgul-vale", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=morgul-vale" }, { "id": "morgulduin", "name": "Morgulduin", "alternateNames": [], "type": "river", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The stream of the Morgul Vale, rising in the Ephel Dúath and flowing west past Minas Morgul, beneath the statue-lined bridge of the Morgul-road, out into Ithilien and thence to the Anduin south of Osgiliath. Within the vale its waters are poisoned and give off cold, deadly vapours; Faramir warned the hobbits to drink of no water that flows from Imlad Morgul. Below the vale it runs through the woods of Ithilien.", "coordinates": { "x": 1585, "y": 1662, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Morgulduin", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=morgulduin", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=morgulduin" }, { "id": "morgul-pass", "name": "Morgul Pass", "alternateNames": [ "the main pass" ], "type": "pass", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The main pass over the Ephel Dúath at the head of the Morgul Vale: a great ravine through which the Morgul-road climbs from Minas Morgul into Mordor and descends toward the plain of Gorgoroth. It is the road of the Nazgûl and of the Morgul-host, and the orc-road from the Tower of Cirith Ungol comes down to join it. In March T.A. 3019 the Host of the West guarded the Cross-roads against enemies coming over it.", "coordinates": { "x": 1622, "y": 1662, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Orcs", "Nazgûl" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Morgul_Pass", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "10 March: the Morgul-host passes over the Morgul Pass toward Minas Tirith." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=morgul-pass", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=morgul-pass" }, { "id": "morgul-road", "name": "Morgul-road", "alternateNames": [ "Wraith-road", "Road to Minas Morgul" ], "type": "road", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The ancient road from Osgiliath east across Ithilien through the Cross-roads to Minas Morgul, and thence up the Morgul Vale and over the Morgul Pass into Mordor. Built by Gondor when Minas Ithil was its fortress, it is now the wraith-road by which the Nazgûl and the Morgul-host ride to war. 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Broad and paved with beaten ash and rubble, it is kept clear by orc-labour after every eruption. Sam carried Frodo up it on 25 March T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 1722, "y": 1578, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": -2441, "toAbsoluteYear": 3019, "estimatedStart": true }, "peoples": [ "Orcs" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Sauron%27s_Road", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "25 March: Sam carries Frodo up Sauron's Road to the door of the Sammath Naur." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=saurons-road", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=saurons-road" }, { "id": "window-of-the-eye", "name": "Window of the Eye", "alternateNames": [], "type": "landmark", "region": "Mordor", "description": "An opening high in the topmost tower of Barad-dûr, facing west toward Mount Doom, from which the Eye of Sauron looks out over Gorgoroth and the lands beyond. 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Aragorn led some six thousand men of Gondor and Rohan to the Slag-hills to draw Sauron's Eye from Frodo; after the parley with the Mouth of Sauron the Gate opened and the host was surrounded by Orcs, Trolls, Easterlings and Haradrim. As the Eagles came the Ring was destroyed, Sauron's power failed, and his armies fled or perished.", "coordinates": { "x": 1643, "y": 1512, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 3019, "toAbsoluteYear": 3019, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Men", "Dúnedain", "Rohirrim", "Orcs", "Trolls", "Easterlings", "Haradrim", "Eagles" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Battle_of_the_Morannon", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "25 March: the Host of the West is surrounded on the Slag-hills; the Ring is destroyed and Mordor's army breaks." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=battle-of-the-morannon", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=battle-of-the-morannon" }, { "id": "siege-of-barad-dur", "name": "Siege of Barad-dûr", "alternateNames": [ "Siege of the Dark Tower" ], "type": "battle", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The seven-year siege of the Dark Tower by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, from S.A. 3434, after their victory on Dagorlad, until S.A. 3441. The host of Gil-galad and Elendil camped on the plain of Gorgoroth and suffered great loss; Anárion was slain by a stone from the Tower in 3440. At last Sauron came forth and was overthrown on the slopes of Orodruin, though Gil-galad and Elendil fell, and Isildur cut the Ring from his hand.", "coordinates": { "x": 1738, "y": 1568, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": -7, "toAbsoluteYear": 0, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Elves", "Men", "Dúnedain", "Orcs" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Siege_of_Barad-d%C3%BBr", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "SA", "year": 3434, "absoluteYear": -7, "description": "The Last Alliance enters Mordor and begins the siege of Barad-dûr." }, { "age": "SA", "year": 3440, "absoluteYear": -1, "description": "Anárion is slain by a stone cast from the Tower." }, { "age": "SA", "year": 3441, "absoluteYear": 0, "description": "Sauron overthrown; Gil-galad and Elendil slain; Barad-dûr razed." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=siege-of-barad-dur", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=siege-of-barad-dur" }, { "id": "ring-bearers-road", "name": "Frodo and Sam's Road through Mordor", "alternateNames": [], "type": "road", "region": "Mordor", "description": "The way of the Ring-bearer, 15–25 March T.A. 3019. Escaping the Tower of Cirith Ungol, Frodo and Sam went north along the trough between the Morgai and the Ephel Dúath, climbed to the orc-road from Durthang to the Isenmouthe, were swept along it in an orc-troop and escaped at the road-meeting, then followed the Barad-dûr road east across Gorgoroth. On 22 March they turned south over the plain, cast away their gear, and reached the Sammath Naur on 25 March.", "coordinates": { "x": 1665, "y": 1592, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 3019, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Quest_of_the_Ring", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "15 March: the hobbits escape the Tower and turn north along the Morgai." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "18–19 March: driven along the Durthang road toward the Isenmouthe; escape at the road-meeting." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "22 March: they leave the road and turn south toward Orodruin." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "24 March: the last march to the feet of Mount Doom." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "25 March: they climb Sauron's Road to the Sammath Naur." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=ring-bearers-road", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=ring-bearers-road" }, { "id": "harad", "name": "Harad", "alternateNames": [ "Haradwaith", "The South", "Sunlands", "Sutherland" ], "type": "region", "region": "Harad", "description": "The vast hot lands south of Gondor and Mordor beyond the river Harnen, divided into Near Harad and Far Harad; their bounds to the east and south are unknown in the North. The Haradrim or Southrons are many warring tribes and kingdoms, dark-skinned and fierce, who ride to war with mûmakil. Long dominated by Umbar and by Sauron, they fight Gondor at the Poros, the Pelennor and the Morannon. Hobbits call it the Sunlands.", "coordinates": { "x": 1650, "y": 2180, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Haradrim", "Men" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Harad", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 1050, "absoluteYear": 1050, "description": "Hyarmendacil I crosses the Harnen and forces the kings of Harad to acknowledge Gondor." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 1944, "absoluteYear": 1944, "description": "The Haradrim join the Wainriders and Khand in the assault on Gondor." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 2885, "absoluteYear": 2885, "description": "The Haradrim cross the Poros and are defeated with the help of Rohan." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "The Haradrim fight for Sauron at the Pelennor and the Morannon." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "King Elessar makes peace with the peoples of Harad." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=harad", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=harad" }, { "id": "near-harad", "name": "Near Harad", "alternateNames": [], "type": "region", "region": "Harad", "description": "The northern part of Harad, lying south of the Harnen and of Gondor's lost province of Harondor, between the Bay of Belfalas and Umbar in the west and Khand in the east; the Harad Road runs into it from the north. Its Haradrim are brown-skinned with black hair and dark eyes, and camels roam its dry lands. Its kings warred with Gondor, allied with the Wainriders and Khand in T.A. 1944, and sent men and mûmakil to Sauron's wars.", "coordinates": { "x": 1650, "y": 2060, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Haradrim" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Near_Harad", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 1944, "absoluteYear": 1944, "description": "The Men of Near Harad, with Khand and the Wainriders, attack Gondor; their army is destroyed in South Ithilien." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "Warriors of Near Harad march north to the siege of Minas Tirith." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=near-harad", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=near-harad" }, { "id": "far-harad", "name": "Far Harad", "alternateNames": [], "type": "region", "region": "Harad", "description": "The distant, little-known south of Harad, far beyond Near Harad: a land of great heat, dark forests, apes, and the mûmakil or oliphaunts that the Southrons train for war. Its peoples are black-skinned, described by the men of Gondor at the Pelennor as like half-trolls with white eyes and red tongues. Warriors of Far Harad fought for Sauron at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields on 15 March T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 1600, "y": 2250, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Haradrim" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Far_Harad", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "15 March: men of Far Harad fight in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=far-harad", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=far-harad" }, { "id": "haradwaith", "name": "Haradwaith", "alternateNames": [ "Sutherland" ], "type": "region", "region": "Harad", "description": "'The South-folk's land', the name written across the southern lands on the maps of Gondor, also rendered Sutherland. It is the country of the Haradrim south of the Harnen and of Mordor's southern mountains, embracing both Near Harad and Far Harad. Beyond the reach of Gondor's later kings, its many tribes are ruled by their own lords, and at the end of the Third Age most are subject to Sauron.", "coordinates": { "x": 1700, "y": 2130, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Haradrim" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Haradwaith", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 1015, "absoluteYear": 1015, "description": "King Ciryandil of Gondor falls in battle in Haradwaith." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=haradwaith", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=haradwaith" }, { "id": "harnen", "name": "Harnen", "alternateNames": [ "South-water", "River Harnen" ], "type": "river", "region": "Harad", "description": "'South-water', the great river that bounds Harad on the north. It rises on the southern slopes of the Ephel Dúath and flows some five hundred miles south-west and then west, through a wide delta into the Bay of Belfalas midway between the Mouths of Anduin and Umbar. Since the Kin-strife it marks the southern border of Harondor, the debatable land between Gondor and the Corsairs. The Harad Road fords it above its westward bend.", "coordinates": { "x": 1690, "y": 1945, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Harnen", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 1050, "absoluteYear": 1050, "description": "Ciryaher crosses the Harnen and utterly defeats the Men of Harad, taking the name Hyarmendacil." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 1448, "absoluteYear": 1448, "description": "After the Kin-strife the Harnen becomes the contested southern bound of Gondor." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=harnen", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=harnen" }, { "id": "ford-of-the-harnen", "name": "Ford of the Harnen", "alternateNames": [], "type": "ford", "region": "Harad", "description": "The crossing where the Harad Road fords the river Harnen on its way south from the Crossings of Poros through Harondor into Near Harad, some way upstream of the river's westward bend. Once Gondor's highway to its southern dominions, by the end of the Third Age it is the route of the Haradrim marching north to Sauron's wars. No name is recorded; only the crossing is shown on the maps of the West.", "coordinates": { "x": 1640, "y": 1956, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Harad_Road", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=ford-of-the-harnen", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=ford-of-the-harnen" }, { "id": "conquest-of-harad", "name": "Hyarmendacil's Conquest of Harad", "alternateNames": [ "Conquest of Harad" ], "type": "battle", "region": "Harad", "description": "The campaign of T.A. 1050 in which Ciryaher of Gondor, having bided his time after his father Ciryandil fell at Umbar, came down from the north by land and sea, crossed the river Harnen and utterly defeated the Men of Harad. Their kings acknowledged Gondor's overlordship and their sons were sent as hostages to Osgiliath; Ciryaher took the name Hyarmendacil, 'South-victor', and Gondor reached the height of its power.", "coordinates": { "x": 1660, "y": 1985, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1050, "toAbsoluteYear": 1050, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Dúnedain", "Haradrim" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Hyarmendacil_I", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 1050, "absoluteYear": 1050, "description": "Ciryaher crosses the Harnen and defeats the Haradrim; he takes the name Hyarmendacil." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=conquest-of-harad", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=conquest-of-harad" }, { "id": "umbar", "name": "Umbar", "alternateNames": [], "type": "realm", "region": "Umbar", "description": "The realm of the Corsairs on the coast south of Gondor: a great cape and the lands about the land-locked firth of the Haven of Umbar. Númenórean since the Second Age and a home of the King's Men, it was won by Gondor in T.A. 933, lost to Castamir's rebels after the Kin-strife, retaken by Telumehtar and lost again. Its Corsairs, mingled with the Haradrim, harry Gondor's coasts and sail for Sauron in the War of the Ring.", "coordinates": { "x": 1510, "y": 2172, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": -1161, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Men", "Dúnedain", "Haradrim" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Umbar", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "SA", "year": 2280, "absoluteYear": -1161, "description": "Umbar is made into a great fortress of the Númenóreans." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 933, "absoluteYear": 933, "description": "Eärnil I of Gondor takes Umbar by land and sea." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 1448, "absoluteYear": 1448, "description": "The sons of Castamir seize Umbar after the Kin-strife; the Corsairs arise." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 1810, "absoluteYear": 1810, "description": "Telumehtar Umbardacil storms Umbar and drives out the Corsairs." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "13 March: the Corsair fleet is taken by Aragorn at Pelargir." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=umbar", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=umbar" }, { "id": "havens-of-umbar", "name": "Havens of Umbar", "alternateNames": [ "Haven of Umbar", "City of the Corsairs", "Umbar" ], "type": "port", "region": "Umbar", "description": "The great natural harbour of Umbar, a land-locked firth sheltered by a long peninsula, with the City of the Corsairs at its eastern end. First fortified by Númenor in S.A. 2280 and long a stronghold of the King's Men, it became Gondor's chief southern haven under the Ship-kings and later the pirate stronghold of the Corsairs. Here Thorongil burned their fleet in T.A. 2980, and hence sailed the black ships defeated at Pelargir in T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 1502, "y": 2150, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": -1161, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Men", "Dúnedain", "Haradrim" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Umbar", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "SA", "year": 2280, "absoluteYear": -1161, "description": "The Númenóreans fortify the Haven of Umbar." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 933, "absoluteYear": 933, "description": "Eärnil I captures Umbar; it becomes a great haven and fortress of Gondor." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 1015, "absoluteYear": 1015, "description": "The Haradrim besiege Umbar; Ciryandil is slain." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 2980, "absoluteYear": 2980, "description": "Thorongil burns a great part of the Corsairs' ships in the Haven." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "The Corsair fleet sails against Gondor and is captured at Pelargir." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=havens-of-umbar", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=havens-of-umbar" }, { "id": "cape-of-umbar", "name": "Cape of Umbar", "alternateNames": [ "Peninsula of Umbar" ], "type": "cape", "region": "Umbar", "description": "The long headland of Umbar, thrusting west from the southern coast of the Bay of Belfalas and bending south to enclose the firth of the Haven. On its highest hill stood the white pillar of Ar-Pharazôn. In the days of the Ship-kings the realm of Gondor ran south along the coast to the peninsula and haven of Umbar; at the end of the Third Age the cape and its harbours are held by the Corsairs.", "coordinates": { "x": 1472, "y": 2108, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Men" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Umbar", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=cape-of-umbar", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=cape-of-umbar" }, { "id": "firth-of-umbar", "name": "Firth of Umbar", "alternateNames": [ "Bay of Umbar" ], "type": "bay", "region": "Umbar", "description": "The land-locked inlet of the sea enclosed by the cape of Umbar, with a narrow entrance from the Bay of Belfalas, forming the finest natural harbour on the southern coasts. Númenórean ships have used it since the Second Age; the fleets of the Ship-kings of Gondor and later of the Corsairs lie here. Off its mouth Eärnil I perished with many ships in a great storm in T.A. 936.", "coordinates": { "x": 1462, "y": 2148, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Umbar", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 936, "absoluteYear": 936, "description": "Eärnil I is lost with many ships in a storm off Umbar." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=firth-of-umbar", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=firth-of-umbar" }, { "id": "monument-of-ar-pharazon", "name": "Monument of Ar-Pharazôn", "alternateNames": [ "White Pillar of Umbar" ], "type": "landmark", "region": "Umbar", "description": "A white pillar with a crystal globe, built by Gondor after its capture of Umbar in T.A. 933 to commemorate Ar-Pharazôn's landing in S.A. 3261 and Sauron's submission. It was thrown down after Sauron's renewed ascendancy. The exact years of construction and destruction are not recorded.", "coordinates": { "x": 1458, "y": 2108, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Umbar", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "SA", "year": 3261, "absoluteYear": -180, "description": "The later monument commemorates Ar-Pharazôn's landing and Sauron's submission." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=monument-of-ar-pharazon", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=monument-of-ar-pharazon" }, { "id": "capture-of-umbar", "name": "Capture of Umbar", "alternateNames": [ "Siege of Umbar (T.A. 933)" ], "type": "battle", "region": "Umbar", "description": "The siege by land and sea in which Eärnil I, second of the Ship-kings of Gondor, took the Haven of Umbar from the King's Men of Númenórean descent who had held it since the Downfall, making it a great haven and fortress of Gondor. The lords driven out fled to the Haradrim and stirred them to war, and Eärnil himself was lost in a storm off Umbar three years later.", "coordinates": { "x": 1447, "y": 2116, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 933, "toAbsoluteYear": 933, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Dúnedain", "Men" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/E%C3%A4rnil_I", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 933, "absoluteYear": 933, "description": "Eärnil I takes Umbar with great force by land and sea." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=capture-of-umbar", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=capture-of-umbar" }, { "id": "siege-of-umbar", "name": "Siege of Umbar", "alternateNames": [], "type": "battle", "region": "Umbar", "description": "The long investment of Gondor's fortress at Umbar by the Men of Harad, led by the lords who had been driven from it. King Ciryandil fell in battle in Haradwaith in T.A. 1015, but the Haven could not be taken because of Gondor's sea-power. For thirty-five years it was beset, until in 1050 Ciryaher came down by land and sea, crossed the Harnen and crushed the Haradrim, taking the name Hyarmendacil.", "coordinates": { "x": 1445, "y": 2114, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1015, "toAbsoluteYear": 1050, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Haradrim", "Dúnedain" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Ciryandil", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 1015, "absoluteYear": 1015, "description": "The Haradrim invest Umbar; Ciryandil slain." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 1050, "absoluteYear": 1050, "description": "Ciryaher relieves Umbar and defeats Harad." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=siege-of-umbar", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=siege-of-umbar" }, { "id": "raid-on-umbar", "name": "Thorongil's Raid on Umbar", "alternateNames": [ "Raid on Umbar" ], "type": "battle", "region": "Umbar", "description": "The night attack of T.A. 2980 in which Thorongil, the captain of Gondor who was Aragorn in disguise, brought a small fleet to Umbar, burned a great part of the ships of the Corsairs, and slew the Captain of the Haven in battle upon the quays before withdrawing with little loss. He then left Gondor's service; the blow long lessened the Corsairs' threat to the coasts.", "coordinates": { "x": 1442, "y": 2108, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 2980, "toAbsoluteYear": 2980, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Dúnedain", "Men" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Aragorn_II", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 2980, "absoluteYear": 2980, "description": "Thorongil burns the Corsairs' ships and overthrows the Captain of the Haven on the quays." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=raid-on-umbar", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=raid-on-umbar" }, { "id": "khand", "name": "Khand", "alternateNames": [], "type": "realm", "region": "Khand", "description": "A land south-east of Mordor and east of Near Harad, home of the Variags, fierce Men allied with Sauron. Little is known of it in the West, and its name is one of the few recorded words of the eastern tongues. The Variags joined the Wainriders and Near Harad in the great assault on Gondor in T.A. 1944, and Variags of Khand fought in the Morgul-host at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in T.A. 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 2000, "y": 1900, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Variags", "Men" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Khand", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 1944, "absoluteYear": 1944, "description": "The Variags of Khand join the Wainriders and Near Harad against Gondor." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "15 March: Variags of Khand fight at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=khand", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=khand" }, { "id": "breredon", "name": "Breredon", "alternateNames": [ "Briar Hill" ], "type": "village", "region": "Buckland", "description": "A small hobbit village of Buckland on rising ground behind the Grindwall hythe of the Withywindle, in the narrow strip of land between the High Hay and the Baranduin. Also called Briar Hill, it stands near Haysend. Hobbit lore remembers its folk as good-humoured neighbours who teased boaters passing on the river below.", "coordinates": { "x": 776, "y": 943, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Breredon", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=breredon", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=breredon" }, { "id": "grindwall", "name": "Grindwall", "alternateNames": [], "type": "landmark", "region": "Buckland", "description": "A small hythe on the north bank of the Withywindle, just outside the protection of the High Hay, fenced by a grind driven into the water to guard the landing. Breredon stands on the rise behind it. Hobbit tradition tells how Tom Bombadil moored his boat here while visiting Farmer Maggot, only for otters to carry it off upstream.", "coordinates": { "x": 772, "y": 948, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Grindwall", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=grindwall", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=grindwall" }, { "id": "elvet-isle", "name": "Elvet-isle", "alternateNames": [], "type": "island", "region": "Old Forest", "description": "A small island in the Withywindle within the Old Forest, home to a company of nesting swans; its name is Old Hobbitish for 'swan'. Tom Bombadil passed it while boating downriver toward the Shire, as recalled in hobbit verse, a short way downstream from his own house among the willows.", "coordinates": { "x": 790, "y": 923, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Elvet-isle", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=elvet-isle", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=elvet-isle" }, { "id": "windle-reach", "name": "Windle-reach", "alternateNames": [], "type": "river", "region": "Buckland", "description": "A rushing, bubbling stretch of the Withywindle running from the Withy-weir down to the Grindwall hythe at the edge of Buckland. Tom Bombadil's boat came foaming into this reach on its journey down from the Old Forest, according to the hobbit poem 'Bombadil Goes Boating' that preserves its whimsical name.", "coordinates": { "x": 779, "y": 938, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Windle-reach", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=windle-reach", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=windle-reach" }, { "id": "withy-weir", "name": "Withy-weir", "alternateNames": [], "type": "landmark", "region": "Old Forest", "description": "A weir across the Withywindle above Windle-reach, near the edge of the Old Forest, probably raised by hobbits of Buckland to manage the river's flow. Tom Bombadil's boat rushed over it on his journey downriver in the tale told in 'Bombadil Goes Boating', foaming on into Windle-reach beyond.", "coordinates": { "x": 784, "y": 931, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Withy-weir", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=withy-weir", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=withy-weir" }, { "id": "battle-pit", "name": "Battle Pit", "alternateNames": [], "type": "tomb", "region": "The Shire", "description": "An old sand-pit near Bywater in the Westfarthing, used as a mass grave for some seventy Ruffians slain in the Battle of Bywater on 3 November T.A. 3019. The nineteen Hobbits who died were buried apart on a nearby hillside beneath a memorial stone, around which a garden of remembrance later grew.", "coordinates": { "x": 704, "y": 908, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 3019, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Battle_Pit", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "About seventy Ruffians killed in the Battle of Bywater are buried here in a former sand-pit." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=battle-pit", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=battle-pit" }, { "id": "bridge-inn", "name": "Bridge Inn", "alternateNames": [], "type": "inn", "region": "The Shire", "description": "An inn that once stood at the western end of the Brandywine Bridge, the last lodging before travellers crossed into Buckland. Under Lotho Sackville-Baggins' rule the Ruffians tore it down and raised an ugly guard-house in its place, where Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin were briefly held by Shirriffs on their return in 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 750, "y": 893, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": 3019, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Bridge_Inn", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "Demolished by Sharkey's Ruffians and replaced with a guard-house." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=bridge-inn", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=bridge-inn" }, { "id": "mithe", "name": "Mithe", "alternateNames": [ "Mithe Steps" ], "type": "landmark", "region": "The Shire", "description": "The outflow of the Shirebourn into the Brandywine in the Eastfarthing, marked by a landing-stage called the Mithe Steps. A lane climbs from the Steps to join the Causeway near Deephallow. Hobbit verse tells how Tom Bombadil climbed the Steps at sunset on his way home after visiting the Shire.", "coordinates": { "x": 767, "y": 955, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Mithe", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=mithe", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=mithe" }, { "id": "the-causeway", "name": "The Causeway", "alternateNames": [], "type": "road", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A high-banked road of the Eastfarthing running north from Deephallow through Rushey and Stock to meet the East Road, tracing the Shire side of the Brandywine opposite Buckland. Frodo Baggins rode part of its length in Farmer Maggot's wagon on the night of 26 September 3018, on the way toward Bucklebury Ferry.", "coordinates": { "x": 748, "y": 940, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Causeway", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=the-causeway", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=the-causeway" }, { "id": "old-grange", "name": "Old Grange", "alternateNames": [], "type": "landmark", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A granary that once stood in Hobbiton just below Bag End, north of the Water and west of the Hobbiton Road. Sharkey's Ruffians tore it down during their occupation of the Shire in 3019 and put up rows of tarred sheds in its place, one of the small industrial scars Sam mourned on his return.", "coordinates": { "x": 701, "y": 901, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": 3019, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Old_Grange", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "Demolished and replaced by tarred sheds during Sharkey's rule of the Shire." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=old-grange", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=old-grange" }, { "id": "south-lane", "name": "South Lane", "alternateNames": [], "type": "road", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A lane in the Westfarthing running a quarter mile south from the Bywater Road to the farmlands of the Cotton family, between Hobbiton and Bywater. During the Battle of Bywater in 3019 Sam proposed making a stand here, an idea Merry rejected as poor tactics in favour of the trap sprung on the Bywater Road itself.", "coordinates": { "x": 704, "y": 907, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/South_Lane", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=south-lane", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=south-lane" }, { "id": "town-hole", "name": "Town Hole", "alternateNames": [], "type": "hall", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A great hobbit-hole in Michel Delving serving as the residence of the Mayor of the Shire, the one office elected by the whole Shire. Some years before the War of the Ring it partly collapsed on Mayor Will Whitfoot, who crawled out unhurt but coated head to foot in white dust, earning the name 'Flourdumpling.'", "coordinates": { "x": 672, "y": 904, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Town_Hole", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3015, "absoluteYear": 3015, "description": "c. 3013–3018: The Town Hole partly collapses on Mayor Will Whitfoot, who earns the nickname 'Flourdumpling.'" } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=town-hole", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=town-hole" }, { "id": "party-tree", "name": "The Party Tree", "alternateNames": [ "Golden Tree" ], "type": "landmark", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A great tree in the middle of the Party Field south of Bag End, beneath which Bilbo Baggins held his farewell party and vanished in 3001. Sharkey's Men felled it in 3019; the next spring Samwise Gamgee planted a mallorn seed from Galadriel in its place, which grew into the Golden Tree, the only mallorn west of the Misty Mountains.", "coordinates": { "x": 700, "y": 900, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Party_Tree", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3001, "absoluteYear": 3001, "description": "Bilbo holds his Farewell Party beneath the tree and vanishes using the One Ring." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "Sharkey's Men cut the tree down during their occupation of the Shire." }, { "age": "TA", "year": 3020, "absoluteYear": 3020, "description": "Sam plants a mallorn seed here; it flowers the next April as the Golden Tree." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=party-tree", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=party-tree" }, { "id": "ferry-lane", "name": "Ferry Lane", "alternateNames": [], "type": "road", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A short lane, some hundred yards long and marked by tall white posts, running from the Causeway down to the Bucklebury Ferry landing opposite Buck Hill. Merry caught up with Frodo, Sam, and Pippin at its entrance on 26 September 3018, and a Black Rider chased them down it to the ferry itself.", "coordinates": { "x": 751, "y": 922, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Ferry_Lane", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3018, "absoluteYear": 3018, "description": "A Black Rider chases Frodo and his companions down the lane to the ferry landing." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=ferry-lane", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=ferry-lane" }, { "id": "new-row", "name": "New Row", "alternateNames": [ "Sharkey's End" ], "type": "village", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A row of hobbit-holes built on the southern face of Hobbiton Hill after the War of the Ring, replacing Bagshot Row, which Sharkey's Men had pulled down. Hobbits wryly nicknamed it 'Sharkey's End', for Saruman was slain nearby. The Gaffer took Number Three, with Sam living there until his marriage to Rose Cotton.", "coordinates": { "x": 700, "y": 900, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 3022, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/New_Row", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "FoA", "year": 1, "absoluteYear": 3022, "description": "Built to rehouse the families displaced when Bagshot Row was destroyed." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=new-row", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=new-row" }, { "id": "shirriff-house", "name": "Shirriff-house", "alternateNames": [], "type": "house", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A row of plain brick barrack-buildings at the western end of Frogmorton, hastily raised under Lotho Sackville-Baggins to quarter the enlarged Shirriffs who policed the Shire for Sharkey. Similar houses stood in other villages; all were pulled down once the Ruffians were driven out at the close of 3019.", "coordinates": { "x": 723, "y": 900, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 3018, "toAbsoluteYear": 3019, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Shirriff-house", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "Torn down once the Scouring of the Shire ends Sharkey's rule." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=shirriff-house", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=shirriff-house" }, { "id": "water-valley", "name": "Water-valley", "alternateNames": [], "type": "valley", "region": "The Shire", "description": "The broad, gentle valley of the River Water, through which the East Road runs past Hobbiton, Bywater, Frogmorton, and Whitfurrows. One of the most settled and populous stretches of the Shire, it was a favourite walk of Bilbo Baggins, who often wandered its lanes with the young Frodo before his own departure.", "coordinates": { "x": 718, "y": 899, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": null, "toAbsoluteYear": null, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Hobbits" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Water-valley", "references": [], "chronicle": [], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=water-valley", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=water-valley" }, { "id": "north-moors", "name": "North Moors", "alternateNames": [], "type": "region", "region": "The Shire", "description": "A wild, empty moorland along the northern border of the Northfarthing, the one part of the Shire where heavy snow was common and no elms grew. 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King Eldacar, backed by the Northmen of the inland fiefs, defeated and personally slew the usurper Castamir, though Castamir's sons escaped downriver to Pelargir with the remnant of his fleet.", "coordinates": { "x": 1465, "y": 1680, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1447, "toAbsoluteYear": 1447, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Dúnedain", "Men" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Battle_of_the_Crossings_of_Erui", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 1447, "absoluteYear": 1447, "description": "Eldacar defeats and slays Castamir at the Crossings of Erui" } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=battle-of-the-crossings-of-erui", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=battle-of-the-crossings-of-erui" }, { "id": "siege-of-pelargir", "name": "Siege of Pelargir", "alternateNames": [], "type": "battle", "region": "Gondor", "description": "After his defeat at the Erui, King Eldacar besieged the sons of Castamir in Pelargir through T.A. 1447–1448. Lacking ships to close the river, Eldacar could not prevent their resupply, and after a year the rebels and their supporters sailed away to Umbar, where they founded an independent lordship hostile to Gondor for generations.", "coordinates": { "x": 1520, "y": 1791, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1448, "toAbsoluteYear": 1448, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Dúnedain", "Men" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Siege_of_Pelargir", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 1448, "absoluteYear": 1448, "description": "Castamir's sons abandon Pelargir and sail away to found the rebel realm of Umbar" } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=siege-of-pelargir", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=siege-of-pelargir" }, { "id": "battle-of-cair-andros", "name": "Battle of Cair Andros", "alternateNames": [], "type": "battle", "region": "Gondor", "description": "On 10 March T.A. 3019, Sauron's forces captured Cair Andros and crossed into Anórien. After the Pelennor battle, Elfhelm's riders drove the invaders out of Anórien toward the island. On the march to the Morannon, Aragorn separately sent men back to retake and hold Cair Andros.", "coordinates": { "x": 1505, "y": 1566, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 3019, "toAbsoluteYear": 3019, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Men", "Orcs", "Rohirrim" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Cair_Andros", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "Sauron's forces seize Cair Andros and cross into Anórien" } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=battle-of-cair-andros", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=battle-of-cair-andros" }, { "id": "raid-on-pelargir-1634", "name": "Corsairs' Raid on Pelargir", "alternateNames": [], "type": "battle", "region": "Gondor", "description": "In T.A. 1634, during the turmoil that followed the Kin-strife, the corsair brothers Angamaitë and Sangahyando, descendants of Castamir, led a fleet from Umbar to ravage Pelargir. King Minardil of Gondor, who was in the city, was slain in the attack, beginning generations of corsair war upon Gondor's coasts.", "coordinates": { "x": 1521, "y": 1789, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1634, "toAbsoluteYear": 1634, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Dúnedain", "Men" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Corsairs_of_Umbar", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 1634, "absoluteYear": 1634, "description": "Corsairs sack Pelargir and kill King Minardil" } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=raid-on-pelargir-1634", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=raid-on-pelargir-1634" }, { "id": "siege-of-gondor", "name": "Siege of Gondor", "alternateNames": [], "type": "battle", "region": "Gondor", "description": "After overrunning the Pelennor on 13 March T.A. 3019, the Witch-king's host besieged Minas Tirith on 14 March. Grond broke the Great Gate at dawn on 15 March, as the Rohirrim arrived. The allied victory at the Pelennor that day relieved the city.", "coordinates": { "x": 1506, "y": 1636, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 3019, "toAbsoluteYear": 3019, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Men", "Orcs", "Nazgûl" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Siege_of_Gondor", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "The Witch-king besieges Minas Tirith and breaks the Great Gate" } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=siege-of-gondor", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=siege-of-gondor" }, { "id": "battle-of-pelargir-3019", "name": "Battle of Pelargir", "alternateNames": [], "type": "battle", "region": "Gondor", "description": "On 13 March T.A. 3019, Aragorn and the Grey Company reached Pelargir with the Army of the Dead and captured the Corsairs' fleet. Aragorn released the Dead, gathered living reinforcements and sailed the captured ships up the Anduin, reaching Minas Tirith on 15 March.", "coordinates": { "x": 1519, "y": 1789, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 3019, "toAbsoluteYear": 3019, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Dúnedain" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Army_of_the_Dead", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "13 March: Aragorn captures the Corsair fleet with the Army of the Dead." } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=battle-of-pelargir-3019", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=battle-of-pelargir-3019" }, { "id": "siege-of-the-hornburg-long-winter", "name": "Siege of the Hornburg (Long Winter)", "alternateNames": [], "type": "battle", "region": "Rohan", "description": "During the Long Winter of T.A. 2758–2759, King Helm Hammerhand held out in the Hornburg and the ravine behind it against Wulf's Dunlendings after Edoras itself had fallen. Helm made terrifying solitary sorties against the besiegers before dying still standing at his post; the ravine has been called Helm's Deep ever since.", "coordinates": { "x": 1251, "y": 1446, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 2758, "toAbsoluteYear": 2759, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Rohirrim", "Dunlendings" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Long_Winter", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 2758, "absoluteYear": 2758, "description": "King Helm Hammerhand is besieged in the Hornburg through the Long Winter" }, { "age": "TA", "year": 2759, "absoluteYear": 2759, "description": "Helm dies at his post, giving the ravine its name, Helm's Deep" } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=siege-of-the-hornburg-long-winter", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=siege-of-the-hornburg-long-winter" }, { "id": "wulfs-invasion-of-rohan", "name": "Wulf's Seizure of Edoras", "alternateNames": [], "type": "battle", "region": "Rohan", "description": "In T.A. 2758 the Dunlending Wulf, aided by Corsair and Easterling attacks elsewhere on Gondor, overran Rohan and killed Prince Haleth defending Edoras, then sat in Meduseld proclaiming himself king. The following March, Fréaláf Hildeson rode from Dunharrow, surprised the Dunlendings, retook Edoras and slew Wulf, ending the occupation.", "coordinates": { "x": 1301, "y": 1541, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 2758, "toAbsoluteYear": 2759, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Rohirrim", "Dunlendings" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Long_Winter", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 2758, "absoluteYear": 2758, "description": "Wulf the Dunlending seizes Edoras and Meduseld" }, { "age": "TA", "year": 2759, "absoluteYear": 2759, "description": "Fréaláf Hildeson retakes Edoras and kills Wulf" } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=wulfs-invasion-of-rohan", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=wulfs-invasion-of-rohan" }, { "id": "death-of-aldamir", "name": "Death of Aldamir", "alternateNames": [], "type": "battle", "region": "Gondor", "description": "King Aldamir of Gondor fell in battle around T.A. 1540 during a long war against the Haradrim and the Corsairs of Umbar, who harried Gondor's southern lands; the precise site of his death goes unrecorded. His son Vinyarion avenged him and took the title Hyarmendacil II, \"South-victor.\"", "coordinates": { "x": 1580, "y": 1900, "approximate": true }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 1540, "toAbsoluteYear": 1540, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Dúnedain", "Men" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Aldamir", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 1540, "absoluteYear": 1540, "description": "King Aldamir is slain fighting the Haradrim and Corsairs" } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=death-of-aldamir", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=death-of-aldamir" }, { "id": "breach-of-the-rammas-echor", "name": "Breach of the Rammas Echor", "alternateNames": [], "type": "battle", "region": "Gondor", "description": "In the early hours of 13 March T.A. 3019, Sauron's advancing host blasted breaches in the Rammas Echor at many points and wrecked the Causeway Forts, forcing Gondor's outlying defenders to flee across the Pelennor to the city. The wall's fall opened the way for the Siege of Gondor that began within hours.", "coordinates": { "x": 1519, "y": 1609, "approximate": false }, "recordedPeriod": { "fromAbsoluteYear": 3019, "toAbsoluteYear": 3019, "estimatedStart": false }, "peoples": [ "Men", "Orcs" ], "book": "The Lord of the Rings", "sourceUrl": "https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Rammas_Echor", "references": [], "chronicle": [ { "age": "TA", "year": 3019, "absoluteYear": 3019, "description": "Sauron's forces breach the Rammas Echor before dawn" } ], "url": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=breach-of-the-rammas-echor", "mapUrl": "https://atlas.bag-end.eu/?place=breach-of-the-rammas-echor" } ] }