Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-25344655-20160218010725/@comment-26044791-20160220000020

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).