Bree-land and the Bree-land Wilds
Bree sat at the crossroads of the Greenway and the Great East Road. It remained a reasonably successful community of Hobbits and Men throughout the Third Age, although it was never able to expand onto the prairies of the old Kingsland. When eastern trade was disrupted—even when the disturbance was a dragon's attack far beyond the mountains—Shire Hobbits grew leery of traveling so far east of the great bridge, and Bree Hobbits seldom had enough curiosity to travel westward. After the re-founding of Arnor, the Bree-folk began to open the surrounding wild country for settlement, coming into conflict with southern immigrants and Shire-folk of a like mind. One of the more dramatic events in this expansion involved the discovery, in a disputed valley, of two small statues, sculpted in ancient garb and said to be images, taken from life, of the founders of the Shire.
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- MERP: Arnor