Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-25344655-20160218010725/@comment-26210095-20160220001909

James of the iron hills wrote: Also, Khazad Sarkhah offers to set up a long distance trade route between the merchants, Erebor, Gondor, The Union and Sarkhah, going via Erebor, Dale, Kheled Arnin, Minas Tirith and Thye merchant's capital, pretty much creating the Silk Road in some ways. (This is in the early Fourth Age). The Merchants capital is Umbar. Umbar is pretty much the center of all trade in the south, so it would make sense for them to be connected.