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| | Trade in Middle-Earth |
 | | The great middle expanse along the coast feels completely desolate, and the Fellowship doesn't seem to be making any effort to avoid people, there being no people to avoid. |
 | | Then, in Frodo's time, Bilbo is able to send to the Lonely Mountain and Dale for lots of birthday presents, and have them return. |
 | | It's not clear if the dwarves of the Iron Hills are part of this network, but even so at a time when Gondor and Rohan haven't seen elves from Lorien in, like, forever, "lesser" men of the Lake and "Rhun" have been hobnobbing with elves on a regular basis. |
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