the 'westward' expansion of the country
The settlers moved 'westward'.
(..) ...as an old man hooded and cloaked. And everywhere, his spies slip past our nets. We are no spies. We track a party of Uruk-hai westward across the plain. They have taken two of our friends captive. The Uruks are destroyed. We slaughtered them during the night. But there were two Hobbits. (..)2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers