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The road is not marked on the map ''[[A Part of the Shire]]''. However there is an unnamed road joining [[Tuckborough]] with Stock through Green Hill Country and Woody End. [[Karen Fonstad]] identifies this road as the Stock Road.<ref>[[Karen Wynn Fonstad]], ''[[The Atlas of Middle-earth]]'', p. 71, The Shire</ref> | The road is not marked on the map ''[[A Part of the Shire]]''. However there is an unnamed road joining [[Tuckborough]] with Stock through Green Hill Country and Woody End. [[Karen Fonstad]] identifies this road as the Stock Road.<ref>[[Karen Wynn Fonstad]], ''[[The Atlas of Middle-earth]]'', p. 71, The Shire</ref> | ||
According to [[Robert Foster]], the Stock Road joined the [[ | According to [[Robert Foster]], the Stock Road joined the [[East Road]] west of [[Bywater]] but no such road does so on said map.<ref>[[Robert Foster]], ''[[The Complete Guide to Middle-earth]]'', p. 365, entry "Stock Road"</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:47, 15 December 2018
The Stock Road was a road in the Shire.
It begun from the village of Stock, passed through the Woody End and the Green Hills.
At the end of the Third Age (22 September, T.A. 3021), Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee met the Keepers of the Three Rings in Woody End, waiting on the Stock Road.[1]
Identification[edit | edit source]
The road is not marked on the map A Part of the Shire. However there is an unnamed road joining Tuckborough with Stock through Green Hill Country and Woody End. Karen Fonstad identifies this road as the Stock Road.[2]
According to Robert Foster, the Stock Road joined the East Road west of Bywater but no such road does so on said map.[3]
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Grey Havens"
- ↑ Karen Wynn Fonstad, The Atlas of Middle-earth, p. 71, The Shire
- ↑ Robert Foster, The Complete Guide to Middle-earth, p. 365, entry "Stock Road"
