The Hobbit on the map of Middle-earth

Fifteen places and a single year, along a road that runs most of the width of the map — from a hobbit-hole in the Shire to a dragon’s door under the Lonely Mountain.

15 places · Third Age 1000 · show these on the map

Every place in The Hobbit that this map plots, in the order Bilbo reaches them. You can open the map showing only these places, with Bilbo’s route drawn across it, or read the same events in sequence on the timeline.

The journey is almost perfectly west to east. Bag End sits at x 2746 on the base map; Erebor sits at x 5161. Between them the road runs through the Trollshaws, over the Misty Mountains by the High Pass and Goblin-town, down to the Carrock and Beorn’s Hall, through Mirkwood to Thranduil’s Halls, and out to Lake-town on the Long Lake beneath the mountain itself. Thirteen of the fifteen places fall on that line.

The other two sit well off it, and both belong to the parts of the story Bilbo never saw. Mount Gundabad is far to the north, where the goblin host mustered before the Battle of Five Armies. Dol Guldur is far to the south in Mirkwood, where the White Council struck while the dwarves were still on the road — the errand that takes Gandalf away from the company for much of the book.

Every event here is dated to Third Age 2941, the single year the quest occupies. For the deep past of these same lands, see The Silmarillion on the map; for all 128 places across every book, see the full gazetteer.

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