Middle-Earth

If any credit is to be given to the tales recounted in Bree, there has always been a settlement here, on the Road, since the Elder Days. What is sure is that the simple Bree-folk—a colourful community of Men and Hobbits, have endured the fall of kingdoms, fell winters, and terrible invasions from Orcs and Evil Men from the north. Today, the Bree-folk, Big and Little, look out from behind their hedge wall and its great encircling ditch to see a landscape of rolling fields and stone-capped hills that are riddled with traces of a past time of glory. But they are not deceived—they know that there are ancient riddles that are best left to others to answer, and instead, they focus their efforts on the responsibilities of daily life.