Brandywine River

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.The Atlas of Middle-earth, Regional Maps, "The Shire"
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.The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book One, Ch. I: "A Long-expected Party"
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.The Atlas of Middle-earth, Map of Arda in the First Age
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.The Lord of the Rings, Appendix F, "On Translation"
==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
== References ==
Category:Rivers of the Shire
Category:Eriador
Category:Rivers
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