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The Lord of the Rings
Prelude. The Hobbit
A Guide to Tolkien's Novel
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The Lonely Mountain |
Maps of Middle-Earth:
scanned from the novel |
Misty Mountains and Mirkwood |
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Places
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Bag-End: House of Bilbo
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Dale: city of men near the Lonely Mountain
destroyed by Smaug when he settled there in 2770 Third Age
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Esgaroth: 'Laketown', city of the Men of the Lake where the survivors of Dale fled to
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Gondolin: ancient town where lived High Elves of the West a long time ago
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Gundabad: great mountain of the North where is the capital of goblins
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Hobbiton: Bilbo's hometown in the Shire
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Lone-lands: lands between the Shire and the Misty Mountains
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Lonely Mountain (the): home of Dwarves destroyed and occupied by the dragon Smaug, who
jealously keeps their lost treasure
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Mirkwood: land of the Wood-Elves; an infamous forest deadly to those who
stray from the path that goes through it, described by Tolkien as suffocating and "everlastingly still and dark
and stuffy"; most of its waters and animals are poisonous to people, and giant spiders live there
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Moria: Khazad-dûm (to Dwarves), ancient abandoned mithril mines dug
in the sides of the Misty Mountains, where the Dwarves had built a great City
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Rivendell: valley of the Misty Mountains, land of Elves, where Lord Elrond
lives in the Last Homely House
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Shire: Homeland of most Hobbits
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