Great West Road

The cobbled east-west road from Edoras skirted the White Mountains. Willows shaded the muddy intersection where the deep-rutted road from Edoras joined the highway.To the west, it passed close to the sheer cliffs of the White Mountains near the valley of Harrowdale ,crossed the cool, roaring waters of the Snowbourne by way of a wide ford and stretched through the Gap of Rohan and to  the Westmarch beyond.To the east, it passed the ruins of the town of Calmirie at Aldburg.From there it meandered down through  the pastures and foothills of the Eastfold, crossed the Mering Stream at the Firien Wood Bridge, which was on the border of Rohan and Gondor, and went on into the Woodlands of Anorien  and on to Minas Tirith.

Standing-stones, Gondorian townsites and forts — many of which were abandoned during the decline of Calenardhon —still lined the hills above the Great West Road.These were ruins of the past and invited adventure, but a better picture of Rohan's Riders arose out of the Riddermark's still-active places, the holds and homes of the Rohirrim.

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