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[To the West,] the land rose in wooded ridges, green, yellow, russet under the sun, beyond which lay hidden the valley of the Brandywine. To the South, over the line of the Withywindle, there was a distant glint like pale glass where the Brandywine River made a great loop in the lowlands and flowed away out of the knowledge of the hobbits.
- The Fellowship of the Ring (Book 1), Chapter 8
The Brandywine (or Baranduin) is a river in Eriador which marked the eastern end of the Shire until the establishment of Buckland. It only has three known crossings at the end of Third Age: The Brandywine Bridge, the Bucklebury Ferry, and Sarn Ford on the far southern border of the Shire.
Northern Dúnedain used to dwell along the river in centuries past as it marked the border between the Arnorian kingdoms of Arthedain and Cardolan. The fall of their kingdoms in the wars with Angmar led them to desert these settlements.
