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Brandywine Swamps
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Location of Brandywine Swamps (MERP)
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Type
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Marshes
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Great swamplands (technically: marshes) dominated both banks of the Brandywine below the Old Forest. The Marish and the Overbourne Marshes were parts of it, as were the Teal Marshes and Pikeman Dwells to the north. In the Southfarthing around Sarn Ford and to the southern bounds, the Brandywine Marshes (S. Beth Baranduin), fed by the rivers Fayne and Reedly as well as several smaller streams, were also known as Southern Marshes or Swamps of Sîrgala. These marshes were homes to quicksand, poisonous snakes, insects, and fevers. The biggest river pikes were powerful enough to injure a swimmer, but they were obliged by their nature to take prey they could swallow whole. The most dangerous "moss-backs" – great, scarred pikes ten to twenty feet in length – were creatures of legend, appearing in fishing lore once or twice in a century; they were reputed to be capable of taking and swallowing a small Hobbit. In practice, even pike of this size were more of a danger to ducklings and pet frogs than to any fisherman.
References[]
- MERP #2005: The Shire