the shire

Even Saruman thought to do this to spite Frodo and goad him into a fight. Why didn't Sauron invade the Shire and start killing Hobbits and perhaps sending Hobbit heads via messengers to various places in the West to try and cause Frodo and his Hobbit friends agony and perhaps goad them into...

I have long thought about the events of SR 1419 that were not covered in detail in the story. Of course, in the wider world the War of the Ring takes precedence. But in The Shire, the takeover of the mayoralty by "The Boss" Lotho Sackville Baggins, the incarceration of Will Whitfoot in the...

(ooc) Considering a Shire-centric story, eventually heading out into the Wilderland. Set about twenty years after the end of the War of Five Armies. Handfuls of hobbits inspired by Bilbo to set out and see the wider world in and around their home, so there'd mostly be Men and Dwarves as far as...

A little bit pricey for a Hobbit Hole...watch out for the ceiling! http://www.woodlynpark.co.nz/thehobbitmotel.html

I've decided to start re-reading The Lord Of The Rings trilogy again and before I started a thought came into my head. The shire is a land of simplicity. They do the same thing everyday, and the only difference may be because someone is having a birthday. So are they isolated from the rest...

I've been looking at the maps and think I see a small inconsitancy between the drawings and the text. Perhaps someone out there can help shed some light on this and make sure I'm not crazy. One the hobbit's way back home, they left Bree and travelled to Brandywine Bridge; it took them 1 day...

I needed to settle an argument. We could not agree whether the channel islands (Jersey, Gurnsey, Sark, Alderney etc.) are part of the UK, or part of the British Isles, or what? The one thing they are not is part of Great Britain (which is the name of the biggest of the British Isles; ie...

Way back in 1601 of the Third Age, King Argeleb II of Arthedain made the land-grant to Hobbits led by Marcho and Blanco Fallohide which the Hobbits called "The Shire". We have indications that this area had become very sparsely populated by the Dunedain - and that it had initially been partly...

All profiles and other such things for 'Return to the Shire' may go here. I'll just toss this to the wind and we'll see if either it flies or comes back to hit me in the face. Hoping of corse for the first... Some of us thought it would be fun to go back to the Shire, so here it is...

"Now where did I put that thing..?" A few slightly tattered bits of clothing, small bundles of herbs and all the other contents of a leather pack were scattered as searching hands dug through them. "Oh, come on now. It was here a moment ago..." Walking up with the sun in her eyes, Kirra had...

Etta closed her eyes and inhaled the lush, green smell of the Shire. The scent of home, friends and (to a lesser extent) family. She opened her eyes, hitched her pack higher onto her back and marched off down the dusty path. The first hobbit she'd seen for over a month glared at her, frowning...

This is the official The Shire Profiles thread, for profiles only (as the name suggests;)). Any discussion of the thread should be put here: http://thetolkien.forum/showthread.php?t=17555

This is the OFFICIAL The Shire thread. Any discussion about it should be in here from now on, rather than the 'Light Role Playing' one. Now that I'm done being bossy, does anyone have any ideas where location and that sort of thing are concerned? I mean, is it going to be in a village, a town...

I am very well aware that ths topic has probably been raised many times, but PJ's exclusion of the above chapter set me into seethes of frenzied anger. I myself am not an extreme hobbit fan, but I really enjoyed reading the hobbits do something for themselves, without any outside help. (not...

Try this: read the 1st few chapters in FOTR covering the shire and then read Scouring... - e.g. just read the book strictly from the setting and perspective of the shire. It kinda sorta seems to me that Cotton kinda comes out of nowhere in Scouring. What is interesing is that we are...

I was disappointed when I heard that this part of the saga was left out of the movie. Then I saw it, and thought about it, and changed my mind. It would have taken too much time to develop properly in the movie. Also, I thought it worked better having them return to an unchanged Shire, and...

I'm sorry if this is not in the correct area, but I did not know where to put it. Plus, I thought that this was the most correct place to post it because it is querying something that Tolkien wrote about in the appendices... Basically, Hobbits celebrate Yule don't they? But NOT...

At the end of the War of the Ring, Gandalf sent the hobbits back to the Shire on their own, knowing they had a bit of "cleaning up" to do, but thinking they had grown enough to handle it themselves. Do you suppose he realized that Saruman himself was there? Would he have knowingly sent the...

Here's a picture of the scouring of the shire. go to http://www.tolkienonline.com/gallery/gallery_item.cfm?ID=1372

I read in another post that that would be left out? So is the shire just going to be happy and fine when they get back? Oh, yeah..... Hi! New to this forum.... Am fourteen and got started on LOTR when my dad read it to me in 1st grade.... Am starting to be more +more of a purist as...