The Chetwood is a large forest stretching from the north, beyond Bree, to the south, past Combe and Staddle. The Blackwold brigands have established their strongholds in the south of the Chetwood, while wild and dangerous animals make their abodes in the north. The woodcutters of Combe report that a pack of wolves have made their work nigh-impossible. The Watch at Bree is commissioning adventurers to rid the Chetwood of the brigands and other threats that abound there, but with the rise of the Shadow in the East, evil is stirring, and the task at hand may be more difficult than the Watch believes.
The Chetwood appears in the original maps of Middle-earth found in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Fans of The Lord of the Rings may recognize the wood as the shortcut taken by Aragorn and the hobbits on their way to the Midgewater Marshes.
