Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-77.103.172.215-20161111113634

Hi Guys

 I have noticed that before the Brown Lands reach the east bank of the river Anduin there is a brief strip of Vales of Anduin biome between the river and the Brown Lands.

 I find this strange firstly from a practical point of view as it seems pointless to have this small stretch of biome there that far south and secondly from a lore point of view as in the chapter 9 The Great River of the Fellowship of the Ring it says:

 “On the eastern bank to their left they saw long formless slopes stretching up and away towards the sky; brown and withered they looked, as if fire had passed over them, leaving no living blade of green: an unfriendly waste without even a broken tree or a bold stone to relieve the emptiness. They had come to the Brown Lands that lay, vast and desolate, between Southern Mirkwood and the hills of the Emyn Muil.”

 This shows that the Brown lands lie immediately east of the Anduin as they can easily be seen from the river. Because of this I would suggest that the Brown Lands biome be extended slightly to the west up to the eastern bank of the Anduin removing the strip of Vales biome between the two.

 Additionally, the extract also says that the Brown Lands lies between Mirkwood and Emyn Muil so the Brown Lands biome could also be extended to reach the southern borders of Mirkwood although considering how large the Brown Lands biome is already this could be a step too far.

 What do you guys think?  