Bree is available in PDF

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Re: Bree is available in PDF

Post by mirkwoodfalcon » Sun May 13, 2018 10:52 am

Elmoth wrote:
Sun May 13, 2018 9:29 am
Threadomancy to just say that i got Bree from my LFGS 2 days ago. I just read the core part, without the adventures. I have to say that I am really impressed. Well done CUBICLE7. The only thing I Do not agree with is the demographics of bree (I would put it at 3-5k, not 5 hundred) but appart from that it looks great. An entry on the barrow downs would have been good, but I assume this will be in the shire or eriador suplements.

So well done. Now lets see what those adventures look like. From the looks of it skimming through the pages, the first one seems tough for a bree-based company of locals but we will see

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XAVI
Good thoughts!

I believe the population estimate comes from this quote from Fellowship of the Ring, chapter "At the Sign of the Prancing Pony": "...The village of Bree had some hundred stone houses of the Big Folk..."

I suppose that could be interpreted as "Bree had about 100 houses of Big Folk", or perhaps even "Bree had a few hundred houses of the Big Folk."
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Re: Bree is available in PDF

Post by Elmoth » Sun May 13, 2018 11:07 am

Yup, that is the passage. Tolkien uses a hundred to indicate "quite a lot", though, so it can be more like 300 ho,es easily. Plus he is only referring to stone houses, not wood houses, not hobbit holes. There is a thread by john hogdson about the "hundred" issue in this very forum.

Even going with strictly 100 houses: Assuming 4-5 people per house (very low in medieval demographics for a house) it would mean that we have 400-500 MEN in bree. You need to aid the hobbit population PLUS all the other villages. 500 seems low to me. And makes for a lot of inbreeding and cousin marriages as well... Maybe this ismwhy their stats are lower after all :mrgreen:

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Re: Bree is available in PDF

Post by Grimboldfrood » Mon May 14, 2018 2:43 pm

Although Hobbits only count as a 'half'! ;)

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