Highbridge

Located at the north tip of the Long Lake, Highbridge is a bit of a misnomer, as there's no bridge that connects across the lake. In actuality, the saying goes that a few hundred years ago, Highbridge was a building project started by an ambitious businessman - crazy, some might add -named Rofael Highleaf, who wished to make a grand bridge across Long Lake to expedite shipping lumber and other goods gathered from the nearby Mirkwood. His project called for a significant workforce, and thus began an exodus of a few hundred workers and their families to Long Lake. However, before the building project could begin in earnest, Rofael Highleaf was murdered by a disgruntled worker. The building project fell around its ears, and many of the remaining workers decided to reinforce their living camps into an actual town, where it remains to this day. Highbridge scrapes by partially because a rare herb, Lady's Locks, found growing in the hilly regions near the Lonely Mountain, which is used to make a fragrant and rosy perfume, as well as a medicinal tea. Highbridge is run by a "council" of merchants, though the acute would be quick to point out it's nothing more than a coalition of merchants that profit off the goods processed from Lady's Locks, with the coin to steer the town's fortune.

Highbridge is Rhovanion’s sole producer and manufacturer of glass.

Highbridge has a popular tavern called the Broken Glass Alehouse.