I’m thinking when I run this game for my group (I just bought it) that I’d like their characters to experience Middle Earth as a foray into the unknown. For that reason I’m limiting culture choices. Men of Bree and Hobbits of the Shire are no brainers. Might even allow one Ranger of the North (depending on back story and how they tie in). But would someone explain to me how dwarves of the lonely mountain and/or men of Laketown would make their way to Bree? Would they go all the way down to the gap of Rohan and make their way up the Greenway? Or are there mountain passes they would traverse? I thought Moria was closed off during this period. So I haven’t been clear how all this dwarf travelling from erebor to the blue mountains would actually be taking place.
Thanks for any insights.