The Brandywine dividing the Shire from Buckland and Bree-land, as seen in The Lord of the Rings Online
The Brandywine River, also known as the Baranduin, was a river of Middle-earth located in both the Shire and northern Eriador.
Description[]
The Brandywine River flowed 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-West 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 Girdley Island in the river just above the Brandywine Bridge.[1]
No tributaries of the Brandywine River 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 river Shirebourn - rises in Green-Hill Country; the Thistle Brook flowed into it
- Withywindle - from the Old Forest
History[]
Frodo Baggins' father, Drogo Baggins, was said to have drowned in the Brandywine River with his wife during a boating trip.[2]
The Brandywine was much longer before the War of Wrath destroyed not only most of Beleriand but part of the Great Gulf's northern shores.[3]
To the hobbits of the Shire, the Brandywine was the boundary between the known and unknown, and even those who lived in Buckland on the immediate opposite shore were considered "peculiar".
Etymology[]
The name Baranduin was Sindarin for "golden-brown river". The hobbits of the Shire called it in their language Branda-nîn, meaning "border water", which functioned as a sort of pun. Later, the pun Bralda-hîm, meaning "heady ale", was coined. Brandywine is simply the English rendering of the same word, as described by Tolkien.[4]
Translations[]
| Foreign Language | Translated name |
| Belarusian Cyrillic | Брэндивайн |
| Bengali | ব্রানডিউইনে |
| Catalan | Brandivi |
| Chinese (Hong Kong) | 烈酒河 |
| Croatian | Vinjakvino |
| Czech | Brandyvína |
| Danish | Brændevinsfloden |
| Dutch | Brandewijn |
| Estonian | Kangevirde |
| Finnish | Rankkivuo |
| French | Brandevin |
| Georgian | ბრენდივაინის მდინარე |
| German | Brandywein |
| Gujarati | બ્રાન્ડીવોન |
| Hebrew | ברנדיוויין |
| Hindi | ब्रैंडीवाइन |
| Hungarian | Borbuggyan |
| Indonesian | Brendi anggur |
| Irish Gaelic | Brandafíon |
| Italian | Brandivino |
| Japanese | ブランディワイン川 |
| Kannada | ಬ್ರಾಂಡಿವೈನ್ |
| Kazakh | Брэндивайн Өзен (Cyrillic) Bréndïvayn Özen (Latin) |
| Korean | 브랜디와인 |
| Kyrgyz Cyrillic | Брэндивайн |
| Marathi | ब्रँडीवाइन |
| Persian | برندیواین |
| Polish | Brandywina |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Brandevin |
| Punjabi | ਬ੍ਰੈਂਡੀਵਾਇਨ |
| Russian | Брендивайн |
| Scottish Gaelic | Branndaidhfìon |
| Serbian | Брендивајнска река (Cyrillic) Brendivajnska reka (Latin) |
| Sindhi | برانڊي وائن |
| Sinhalese | බ්රැන්ඩිනින් |
| Spanish | Brandivino |
| Swedish | Vinfloden |
| Tajik Cyrillic | Брендивайн |
| Telugu | బ్రాండివైన్ |
| Thai | บรั่นดีอนุรักษ์ ? |
| Turkish | Brendibadesi |
| Urdu | برانڈی وائن |
| Welsh | Brandigwin |
| Yiddish | בראַנדיווינע |
| Rivers | |
|---|---|
| Númenor | |
| Númenor | Nunduinë • Siril |
| Middle-earth | |
| Eriador | Glanduin • Gwathló • Hoarwell • Lune • Sirannon • Withywindle |
| Rhovanion | Anduin • Celebrant • Forest River • Gladden • Greylin • Langwell • Limlight • Nimrodel • Redwater • River Running |
| Gondor | Anduin • Ciril • Erui • Gilrain • Harnen • Lefnui • Glanhír • Morgulduin • Morthond • Poros • Ringló • Serni |
| Rohan | Adorn • Entwash • Isen • Glanhír • Snowbourn |
| The Shire | Brandywine River • Shire-water • Shirebourn |
| Ossiriand | Gelion • Adurant • Ascar • Brilthor • Duilwen • Greater Gelion • Legolin • Little Gelion • Thalos |
| Tributaries to Sirion | Aros • Dry River • Esgalduin • Mindeb • Narog • Rivil • Taeglin |
| Other rivers | Brithon • Celebros • Celon • Malduin • Nenning • Ringwil • Sirion |
References[]
- ↑ The Atlas of Middle-earth, Regional Maps, "The Shire"
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book One, Ch. I: "A Long-expected Party"
- ↑ The Atlas of Middle-earth, Map of Arda in the First Age
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings, Appendix F, "On Translation"