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Esgaroth

Esgaroth, or Lake-town, is a fictional community of Men upon the Long Lake that appears in the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. Constructed entirely of wood and standing upon wooden pillars sunk into the lake-bed, the town is south of the Lonely Mountain and east of Mirkwood. The town's prosperity is apparently built upon trade between the Men…

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Location
Wilderland
Other name
Lake-town
Ruled by
Master of Lake-town
Type
Town built upon trade between Men, Elves and Dwarves in northern Middle-earth Lake city

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Esgaroth

Nodes76
Edges75
Triples114
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.026316
Components1

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related to Analysis · 24
Esgaroth → Although, Anderson, Bimble Town, Corporation, Douglas, Dwarf Thorin Oakenshield, Hamelin, Instead, Lake-Town, Lake-town's Master, Master, Mayor, On, Progress, Robert Browning's, Smaug, The, The Annotated Hobbit, The Hobbit, The Master
related to Concept and artwork · 22
Esgaroth → Bilbo, Bilbo's, Christina Scull, Dwarves, Elf, Elves, Europe, Hammond, He, Les, Manwë, Men, Ring, Robert Munro's, Swiss, The, The Halls, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, Tolkien
related to Fictional etymology · 18
Esgaroth → Compared, Dale, Elvish, Ilkorin, In, Its, Lake-town, Númenorean, River Running, Sindarin, Sindarized, Sumerian, The, The Hobbit, This, Tolkien, Tolkien's, While
related to Geography · 15
Esgaroth → Celduin, Dorwinion, Forest River, It, Long Lake, Middle-earth, Mirkwood, Rhûn, River Running, Sea, The Forest River, The Lonely Mountain, The River Running, Tolkien, Wilderland
related to In other media · 11
Esgaroth → Five Armies, In, In Peter Jackson's, Lake-town, Master, Middle-Earth II, Smaug, Stephen Fry, The Battle, The Desolation, The Hobbit
related to Language · 11
Esgaroth → Amongst, English, Men, Old English, Old Norse, Rohirrim, The, Thus, Tolkien, Tolkien's Middle-earth, Westron
related to Master of Lake-town · 7
Esgaroth → Bilbo, He, Lake-town, Master, The Hobbit, The Master, Thorin's Company
Location · 1
Esgaroth → Wilderland
Other name · 1
Esgaroth → Lake-town
Ruled by · 1
Esgaroth → Master of Lake-town

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town tolkien hobbit lake-town middle-earth master lake men upon people dwarves language smaug river tolkien's new old elves built northern

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
EsgarothLocationWilderland1.00infobox
EsgarothOther nameLake-town1.00infobox
EsgarothRuled byMaster of Lake-town1.00infobox
EsgarothTypeTown built upon trade between Men, Elves and Dwarves in northern Middle-earth Lake city1.00infobox
Esgarothis amore0.90text
in Robert Munro's 1908 Les stations lacustres d'Europe aux ages de la pierre et du bronzeinstance ofprobably based on an artist's conception of such a town0.80text
Esgarothrelated to AnalysisDouglas0.60section
Esgarothrelated to AnalysisAnderson0.60section
Esgarothrelated to AnalysisThe Annotated Hobbit0.60section
Esgarothrelated to AnalysisLake-town's Master0.60section
Esgarothrelated to AnalysisRobert Browning's0.60section
Esgarothrelated to AnalysisMayor0.60section

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