the shire

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The shire has to be one of most relaxing and beautiful places I have ever seen, as I witnessed the Shire in person a few years ago and would definitely be a place for an escape or even retirement LOL! My type of meal would consist of fish and chips, along with a few large pints of beer and a...

Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz— The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets? Do you remember the rats; and the stench Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench— And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain? Do...

For those interested, the latest chapter is now posted. Any and all suggestions of how to improve it are most welcomed.

This teaser was dropped on Friday: This guy is trying to find out what this game is about:

It seems that they got Fornost (or it's abandoned anyway), they got Amon Sul (what's now Weathertop) and they got some area that's now the Barrow Downs. The Barrow Downs area was the most western area that they got into that I can think of. However, it seems that something kept them out of...

I see that Gandalf recommended that he go to Rivendale, but that seems out of the way if he wants to ultimately go to Mordor. The much quicker route, and, it would seem, as far as Gandalf knew, safer route, would have been to go toward Longbottom and the Gap of Rohan and ultimately cross the...

If it's interesting to the denizens here, I might offer a bit of back-story to my own journey into the realms of Tolkien tactile artifacts. It begins of course with Gandalf arriving for Bilbo's party in the first chapter of THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING: A Long Expected Party.... So...

We first encounter a Black Rider on the evening of September 23rd as dark is descending on the Shire. Frodo walks a short way down the Hill Road prior to his departure for Rivendell, hoping the long expected Gandalf will appear out the gloom. With nothing seen he turns to go back to Bag End when...

On another board, we had a discussion on why Saruman tried to conquer Shire - which, clear as a day, was not going to last forever. So this is what I wrote: What do you think of that explanation?

Hello there fellow Tolkienist! Ever wondered if hobbits drink wine? or maybe you already know the answer and just want to see if there is some stuff about Old Winyards you didn't know? Whatever brought you here, I hope you like the video and want to support me to make even more lore-videos...

As a USPS employee, I have become interested in the postal system of the Shire. I know it was one of the few services by the government of the Shire, I know Sam Gamgee eventually became the postmaster. I know it was small in scale and the Hobbiton branch needed volunteers to distribute Bilbos...

Yeah, here're the big doubt I list 1. Celebrities like Gandalf, Barliman and Bilbo have already make Shire not isolated anymore via commercial, adventure and all kinds of activities. This proved that Shire's role in ME has already a bit important on all kinds of aspects. Shire must not be so...

Now you won't have to go to New Zealand to stay in a hobbit hole. https://secretldn.com/lord-of-the-rings-hobbit-hotel-spain/

Gandalf said, in Fellowship of the Ring, that in Shire, there is another power which could withstand Sauron: "Indeed there is a power in Rivendell to withstand the might of Mordor, for a while: and elsewhere other powers still dwell. There is power, too, of another kind in the Shire. But all...

Remember when they get back to the Shire, and to their horror there's a list of rules on the wall, and Pippin tears it down? What a lovely moment. Nowadays we take for granted that everywhere we go there are ten thousand rules (including ones about smoking inside which would have horrified...

‘You see: Mr. Drogo, he married poor Miss Primula Brandybuck. She was our Mr. Bilbo’s first cousin on the mother’s side (her mother being the youngest of the Old Took’s daughters); and Mr. Drogo was his second cousin. So Mr. Frodo is his first and second cousin, once removed either way, as the...

I found it a little curious to notice that some place names on the map of the Shire have no role in LotR. After some systematic reviewing, I compiled a list of Shire villages that remained unmentioned, both in TH and in LotR. Just in case anyone would be interested, here is this list...

While it worked out for the best that Merry and Pippin continued on with the Fellowship, I am under the impression that, despite Elrond suggesting that the Hobbits of the Shire be warned of their danger, that this never happened. Had messages been sent back (maybe not by Merry and Pippin)...

I know this sounds absurd at first glance, but not if you think about it. Saruman had already been seduced by Sauron through the Palantir. (As strange as it sounds, I think Denethor actually was able to hold out stronger than him, in part because Denethor only had concern for his people, not...