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The name Bree means hill, according to Tolkien, referring to the fact that the village of Bree and the surrounding Breelands are centered around a large hill. There are three villages in Breeland in addition to Bree proper.

• Staddle is populated primarily by hobbits who make a living from light agriculture, of pipeweed, primarily. Staddle is on the south-eastern side of Breehill, sitting south of Combe and Archet. It is the only of the villages (other than Bree itself) visible from the Great East Road.

• Combe is populated primarily by Men, with some hobbits, all of whom make a living from agriculture. Combe is situated on the borders of the Chetwood and on the edge of Breehill, between the villages of Archet and Staddle.

• Archet is the furthest north. Located in the Chetwood, it is populated primarily by Men.

In The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo Baggins met Strider ( Aragorn) at the largest inn in Bree, The Prancing Pony, owned by Barliman Butterbur. Later on in Fellowship, some of the Ringwraiths attempted to kill the hobbits, but Strider anticipated them, and the hobbits were in his room instead of their own when the Black Riders struck. The hobbits also returned to Bree near the end of the storyThe Return of the King is the third and final volume of J. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings following The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers''. Synopsis Aragorn by his courage and leadership proves himself a worthy ruler of men. The brave and loyal, on their way home.

Bree is also the place where, earlier, seemingly by accident, GandalfIan McKellen portrays Gandalf in The Two Towers. Because of his openness he is well-liked by many Tolkien fans. This article is about the fictional character from J. Tolkien's books. For other meanings of Gandalf see: Gandalf (disambiguation Gandalf is a and Thorin OakenshieldTolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, Thorin Oakenshield was a Dwarf, the son of Thrain II and the grandson of King Thror. Born in the year 2746 of the Third Age (TA), Thorin was driven into exile by Smaug in 2770, along with the rest of the surviving Dwarv met. They were both thinking about the same problem: the DragonTolkien's universe of Middle-earth features dragons closely based on those of European legend. All were created by Morgoth out of fire and sorcery sometime before the First Age of the Sun, when Glaurung first appeared. Taxonomy Tolkien designed his own ta SmaugFor the MUD of this name, see SMAUG. In the fiction of J. Tolkien, Smaug was a greedy, reddish-gold dragon of Middle-earth, who laid waste to Dale and captured the Lonely Mountain (Erebor) with all its treasure. Smaug's scales rendered him almost invulner at the Lonely MountainTolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, the Lonely Mountain ( Sindarin Erebor is a mountain in the northeast of Rhovanion. It is also the source of the Celduin river. The ancestral home of the King under the Mountain, it became a Dwarven stronghold, where the. The meeting led to the undertaking of the Quest of Erebor, which resulted in the death of Smaug and the finding of the One Ring by Bilbo Baggins. If Smaug had lived until the War of the Ring, he would have posed a serious threat.

In Peter Jackson's movie , Frodo and his companions arrive at Bree almost immediately after the scene in which they leave the Shire, giving the impression (perhaps unintentionally) that the two are much closer together than described by Tolkien.