Middle-Earth

Bordered to the west by the Greenway and to the north by the East Road, the South Downs is a range of hills running from east to west for about a hundred miles. Dreary, empty and featureless, the hills sport little vegetation and few animals make their lairs there. The Bree-folk and the Rangers have little reason to travel across this wild region, and avoid it whenever possible, disliking in particular the occasional miasma that drifts east from the Barrow-downs.