Bindbole Wood

Bindbole Wood
Region:	The Shire
Landmark(s):	Bolestones Lob's Grove Overhill Yards
Settlement(s):	Overhill
Connecting Area(s):	Greenfields The Hill North Bridgefields Rushock Bog
Levels:	Mainly 9 - 10
Resource tier:	Apprentice

Bindbole Wood is an area within the Shire in the northern region.

This large area north to north-east of the Hill is chiefly a forest full of aggressive wildlife, fearsome spiders, and the odd goblin patrol, troubling peaceful hobbits and careless travellers alike.

Its main road connects the wood-workers' village of Overhill with Hobbiton in the south and Brockenborings to the east being dissected by the river Norbourn that flows south to Bywater Pool.

Basic supplies and crafting facilities are available in Overhill.

Locations

Overhill

Settlements

• Overhill

Landmarks

• Bolestones
• Lob's Grove
• Overhill Yards

Instances

• A Hunter's Charge

NPCs

See "list of NPCs" within Bindbole Wood

Bindbole Kid ^{[27.8S, 70.9W]}

Quests

Bolestones

Lob's Grove

Overhill Yards

See "starting quests" and the landmarks for more quests
Starting

• [...] Frightened Beyond Disbelief - Harvest Festival
• [...] An Autumnal Mystery - Harvest Festival

Involving

• [9] The Big Black Bear
• [10] Spider Plague
• [10] Finding the Nest
• [10] Free the Tree
• [10] Lucky Sling-stone
• [30] Instance: A Hunter's Charge - Hunter
• [65] Volume II, Book 9, Epilogue: Greyhammers
• [...] A Night for Ghost Stories - Harvest Festival

Creatures

The following creatures are found within the area:

• Angry Broadtooth
• Big Black-bear
• Bindbole Weaver
• Crazed Broadtooth
• Foraging Wood-bear
• Gramsfoot Advancer
• Gramsfoot Piercer
• Grishskum
• Old Broadpaw
• Restless Broadtooth
• Snarling Wolf
• Wild Broadtooth
• Wild Hill-toad
• Wild Tusker
• Young Wood-bear
• Zanshík

Critters

• Frog
• Red Fox
• Shire White-tail Buck

Lore

A 'bole' is a tree-trunk, so the wood's name 'Bindbole' suggests a dense and tangled forest. No map shows the northern limit of Bindbole Wood, so nobody knows how extensive it once was. However, given that much of the Northfarthing, to the north, was either farmland or moorland, the wood was presumably relatively small in size.

Note that many sources give the name of this wood as Bindbale, but 'Bindbole' is definitely the original spelling. However, Tolkien himself seems to have interpreted the name 'Bindbale' on at least one occasion, and apparently considered it to be somehow meaningful. In this sense, the name possibly refers to the nearby croplands in some way (to 'bind a bale' is to bring harvested crops together into a bundle or package). - Lorebook

Maps

Gallery

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  Abandoned animal den in far northern Bindbole
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  Bridge on the road through Bindbole
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  Ruins atop a cliff near Bolestones
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  River dividing Bindbole between East & West
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  The eastern woods of Bindbole
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  A low-hanging wall can be found north of Overhill
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  The falls of the river through the woods