Thread:LOTRMod/@comment-188.27.34.17-20170111185052/@comment-25101089-20170112005802

I think we've decided that they won't go to Eriador. The argument from Bilbo's lack of knowledge is strong, and another strong point is that at the time of the mod the Misty Mountains were crawling with Orcs, which would heavily discourage any traders from trying to cross them - especially to Eriador, which is almost entirely depopulated and so not worth travelling to anyway. As for the Elves in the West, the idea we have tried to portray is that the Dorwinion Elves are 'not on good terms' with the High Elves, and vice versa (but don't understand that as hostility - certainly nothing near hostility!) and so they'd have no interest in going there anyway. The Elves Bilbo met are most probably from Rivendell.