bree

After the collapse of the Northern kingdoms Bree supposedly thrived for centuries without any major calamities.

We are building Bree - a better way to create and maintain technical docs.

He doesn't know what to do at Bree until Strider helps him.

The UI design can Bree taken seriously but is no hard science.

He made it as far as Bree in a very Hobbit-esque style before scrapping it all and rewriting it in the more adult LotR style.

I do have one nitpick, though: on the map of Bree that is shown towards the end, there is a North gate.

I read Bree Fram's With Honor and Integrity: Transgender Troops in their Own Words.

The North gate on the map in the article has a road going to Deadmen's Dike, but the road to Deadmen's Dike (Fornost) in LotR is the Greenway, which intersects the East Road just outside the West gate of Bree (and as well as running north to Fornost, runs south past the Barrow Downs and, after intersecting the road from Sarn Ford, goes on to Tharbad and Gondor).

This isn't casually obvious from the text, as The Shire and Bree are near pastoral paradises within their borders, and Gondor is a functioning kingdom (the farms surrounding Minas Tirith are mentioned briefly in the book), and we all remember the Lonely Mountain, Laketown, and Dale from The Hobbit.

I'd say it was probably marked as a "Gate" here since Bree is surrounded by a Dike/Hedge and should simply illustrate that you can't simply cross on a "normal" road here.

The drawing which is being referred to here appears in `The Return of The Shadow` (History of Middle-Earth Book 6) as `Plan of Bree` in Chapter `XX The Third Phase (2): At the Sign of the Prancing Pony` The drawing "Plan of Bree" by Tolkien can also be seen on pg 45 (Illustration 25) in "The Art of The Lord of the Rings"

"To the dismay of Thorin, Smaug the horrible turned out to sit on a pile of paper that anyone could buy if they wanted to and all the gold was already in circulation in the town of Bree."

This is not quite true, while you're correct that there is no third gate, the Greenway (as pictured in the upper left corner of the 3 picture illustration you're referring to) is not the road which is shown in the "close-up" (lower center picture) of Bree which goes "To Deadman Dike".

> The Harfoots (presumed ancestors of the Hobbits of the Shire, Buckland, and Bree) are completely made up.

Not really, though I suppose you can interpret art how you like: The Lord of the Rings was actually begun, as a separate thing, about 1937, and had reached the inn at Bree, before the shadow of the second war.