Brandywine River
The Brandywine, also known as the Baranduin, was a river of Middle-earth located in northern Eriador.
Geography
The Brandywine flows out of LAKE EVENDIM in northern Eriador, and continued eastward for about 60 miles before turning generally southward; and afterwards for about another 120 miles flowed through the easternmost reaches of the SHIRE, forming the Shire's eastern border and separating BUCKLAND, from the EASTFARTHING and the rest of the Shire. Its only major crossings in the Shire were the BRANDYWINE BRIDGE (originally Bridge of Stonebows) on the EAST ROAD and the BUCKLEBURY FERRY.
Skirting the OLD FOREST to the south, the river then looped south-westward, crossing an old road at SARN FORD and flowed to the north of the depopulated region of MINHIRIATH before flowing into the GREAT SEA to the north of the forested region of ERYN VORN. The river also has an island known as GRIDLEY ISLAND in the river just above the Brandywine Bridge.
No tributaries of the Brandywine are described except those near or in the Shire:
THE WATER - in the central Shire, from the northwest
The STOCKBROOK - arose in the WOODY END
The SHIREBOURN RIVER - rises in GREEN-HILL COUNTRY; the THISTLE BROOK flowed into it
WITHYWINDLE RIVER - from the Old Forest
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