Course of the Great East Road
The Great East Road was an important highway , sometimes paved , leading from the Grey Havens in Lindon through the Shire to Bree , Weathertop, Rivendell , and the High Pass over the Misty Mountains.Sections of the Great East Road bore names of their own, for example the roadway from Bywater to Little Delving was known as the Bywater Road.The Great East Road as it led eastwards from The Shire was simply known as The East Road, the Dúnedain knew the Great East-Road as it cut the Realm of Arnor in two halfs as East-West-Road.The Great Eastroad itself was also considered just a part of the greater Men-i-Naugrim.
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- MERP:the Shire