Where is Breredon please ? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Raynor · 11-30-2006, 06:43 PM

According to the Maps of Lotr Chapter of the Hammond and Scull "Reader Companion":

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Tolkien expanded the geography of this part of the Shire in his Preface to The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the REd Book (1962), in regard to his poem Bombadil goes boating:
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Breredon (Briar Hill) was a little village on rising ground behind the hythe, in the narrow tongue between the end of the High Hay and the Branywine.

Hope that helps; I am quoting from the Companion, since my version of the Adventures doesn't have this bit of info.

The Mouth of Sauron · 12-01-2006, 01:21 PM

Thanks - it must have been a suburb of Haysend !

Mänwe · 12-04-2006, 09:49 AM

And to add to Raynor's post here is a map of the area.

HERE

You may find the village underneath the label "Buckland".

Legate of Amon Lanc · 12-04-2006, 02:02 PM

If I can add one more question to this topic, I was always wondering what Standelf is, I am sorry for my obvious ignorance, but I was not able to find any mentions of it in LotR, Sil, UT (NOT Unreal Tournament!!!), Poems and Stories (which I hoped it will be in - I thought it was mentioned in Adventores of Tom Bombadil - well, it isn't, obviously?)... so, does anyone know?

Mänwe · 12-04-2006, 02:37 PM

Legate, Standelf is a small village in the south of Buckland. Which you can make out on the map I provided.

Legate of Amon Lanc · 12-06-2006, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Mänwe

Legate, Standelf is a small village in the south of Buckland. Which you can make out on the map I provided.

Of course, I know this. Seeing the map just remembered me of it. But this is what interests me: is there any other mention of Standelf besides of the map? I mean, it should be, unless Karen Wynn Fonstad made it up... (it is from her atlas, right?)

Estelyn Telcontar · 12-06-2006, 01:28 PM

Standelf is on Tolkien's own map in FotR - between the prologue and Book I in my edition. I haven't found a text reference to it in the books I have, but at any rate it is not Fonstad's invention.

12-04-2006, 09:49 AM	#3
Mänwe Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: May as well be the Arctic Circle Posts: 283	And to add to Raynor's post here is a map of the area. HERE You may find the village underneath the label "Buckland". __________________ "I am, I fear, a most unsatisfactory person." - (Letter #124 To Sir Stanley Unwin)

12-04-2006, 02:02 PM	#4
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	If I can add one more question to this topic, I was always wondering what Standelf is, I am sorry for my obvious ignorance, but I was not able to find any mentions of it in LotR, Sil, UT (NOT Unreal Tournament!!!), Poems and Stories (which I hoped it will be in - I thought it was mentioned in Adventores of Tom Bombadil - well, it isn't, obviously?)... so, does anyone know? __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

12-04-2006, 02:37 PM	#5
Mänwe Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: May as well be the Arctic Circle Posts: 283	In anwer.. Legate, Standelf is a small village in the south of Buckland. Which you can make out on the map I provided. __________________ "I am, I fear, a most unsatisfactory person." - (Letter #124 To Sir Stanley Unwin)

12-06-2006, 01:28 PM	#7
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Standelf is on Tolkien's own map in FotR - between the prologue and Book I in my edition. I haven't found a text reference to it in the books I have, but at any rate it is not Fonstad's invention. __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

12-01-2006, 01:21 PM	#2
The Mouth of Sauron Wight Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Barad-Dur Posts: 196	Thanks - it must have been a suburb of Haysend !