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Esgaroth, or Lake-town is a fictious community of Men upon the Long Lake,
in The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. The town is constructed entirely of wood
and stands upon wooden pillars sunk into the bed of the Long Lake, south of
the Lonely Mountain and east of Mirkwood. It seems that the town's
prosperity is built on trade between the Men (descendants of the Edain, and
thus distant cousins of the Dúnedain of Gondor), Elves and Dwarves of
northern Middle-earth.
Esgaroth and Lake-town may have been separate settlements established on
the same site, one predating Smaug's destruction of Dale and Erebor and the
other built afterwards. There is mention in The Hobbit of "old pilings of a
greater town" that could be seen at low tide.
Esgaroth was always independent of Dale and had no king. The people had
always elected from among the old and wise the Master of Lake-town and did
"not
