Rivendell
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- This page is about the fictional place in Tolkien's stories. For other meanings, see Rivendell (disambiguation).
 In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins stopped off at Rivendell with the dwarves on the way to the Lonely Mountain and also on the way back to the Shire with Gandalf. In The Lord of the Rings, Frodo Baggins and his Hobbit companions journey to Rivendell, where they meet with Bilbo, who had retired there after his 111th birthday, spending his time on his memoirs, There and Back Again. Several other Elves, Dwarves and Men also arrive at Rivendell on separate errands; at the Council of Elrond they learn that all of their errands are related to the fate of the One Ring, and they must decide what to do about it. In the end it is the Hobbits who influence the decision. Rivendell is located at the edge of a narrow gorge of the river Bruinen (one of the main approaches to Rivendell comes from a nearby ford of Bruinen), but well hidden in the moorlands and foothills of the Hithaeglir or the Misty Mountains. The climate is cool-temperate with moderately warm summers and rather snowy winters. Rivendell is a direct translation or calque of the Sindarin name Imladris, both meaning "deep valley of the cleft". The physical appearance of the valley of Rivendell is based upon the Lauterbrunnental in Switzerland, where J.R.R. Tolkien had hiked in 1911. [edit] See also
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