Great East Road
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction of Middle-earth, the East Road is the road which runs through The Shire.
The Great East Road was created by the Dwarves somewhere in the First Age, and ran from the Ered Luin to the High Pass, where it continued as the Men-i-Naugrim or "Old Dwarf Road" through Mirkwood, ultimately ending in the Iron Hills of northern Rhovanion.
When the Númenórean realm in exile Arnor was founded, they took over the road, and built several fortresses on or near it (Weathertop), and expanded or created bridges over the rivers Baranduin and Mitheithel. After Arnor was divided, the Great East Road formed the boundary between Cardolan and Rhudaur.
Where the Great East Road meets the Greenway, the village of Bree was founded. Further west the Hobbits colonized the Shire, and their most important towns lie on it (Hobbiton and Michel Delving to name two).
