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[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Alfirin

if such a system was in place in parts of ME it would go a long way to explaining a lack of traveling (it is after all hard to engage in casual traveling if it's in fact illegal). I'm not saying no one is allowed to travel (nomadic people like the rangers obviosly do) but those that do may be the exception, not the rule

I don't think that was necessarily the case. Gildor and his group were seen aimlessly wandering about the Shire. Dwarves travelled the East-West Road on a regular basis, going to and from their own habitations.
There was obviously some intercourse between Gondor and Rohan.
I don't think travelling was frowned upon in itself. It's more that by the time of the War of the Ring, the various 'speaking peoples' were generally estranged from one another, and didn't know who of alien race they could trust.