The Brandywine was a river of Middle-earth located in both the land of the Shire and northern Eriador.

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Description

The Brandywine 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 most of Buckland, except for the Marish in the Shire's Eastfarthing (where the predominantly Stoorish hobbits remained loyal to the Brandybucks of Buckland),[1] and the Old Forest from 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 southwestward, 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.[2]

No tributaries of the Brandywine are described except those near or in the Shire:

History

Frodo Baggins' father, Drogo Baggins, was said to have drowned in the Brandywine River with his wife during a boating trip.[citation needed]

Etymology

The name Baranduin was Sindarin for "golden-brown river". The Hobbits of the Shire originally gave it the punning name Branda-nîn, meaning "border water" in original Hobbitish Westron. This was later punned again as Bralda-hîm meaning "heady ale" (referring to the colour of its water), which Tolkien renders into English as Brandywine.[citation needed]

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".





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 Cyrillic Брэндивайн Korean 브랜디와인 Kyrgyz Cyrillic Брэндивайн Marathi ब्रँडीवाइन Persian برندیواین Polish Brandywina Portuguese (Brazil) Brandevin Punjabi ਬ੍ਰੈਂਡੀਵਾਇਨ Russian Брендивайн Scottish Gaelic Branndaidhfìon Serbian Брендивајн (Cyrillic) Brendivajn (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



