the shire

Ents....a happy end or not? Do you think the Ents managed to find the Entwives? Was Sam Gamgee's story a glimpse of the Entwives and could it represent a shred of hope that they will be reunited with the Ents someday? Or do you believe that they were all destroyed when Sauron assaulted...

I understand mosly everything but one part.: Gandalf meets Aragorn around the beginging of May. He meets Radagast at the end of June. His letter to Frodo makes sense to me now. But when he is talking to Aragorn (Stirder tells the hobbits about this in his chapter), he sais "Frodo (or the...

I've just skimmed over 'Riddles In The Dark' and I didn't find Bilbo mentioning anything about 'Shire'. He said he was Bilbo Baggins, but that was all. So, where did Smeagol find out about 'Shire' from, so he could tell those nice people in Mordor?

I believe that i know why they are leaving out the scouring of the Shire, because in the film, the Uruk-hai are very powerful and scary and well like monsters, in the book they are like men in the film they are more like orcs, so why would they run away from 4 small hobbits with swords?! and...

I've heard various people complaining about how PJ may cut the Scouring Of The Shire out of the 3rd film. Understandable, of course, but most people said that they couldn't cut it because it was showed in Galadriels Mirror in FOTR. Perhaps this has been pointed out before? I don't know, but...

For those of you who haven't heard yet, the Scouring of the Shire is being cut. Not just the chapter, but the whole deal. Now I don't know if this means we won't see the Shire after the four hobbits return, but the point remains that we won't see it ravaged and it's people oppressed. I've heard...

There are very many beautiful parts of the world (particularly New Zealand!), but if we were to ask: from where exactly did Tolkien derive his inspiration for his descriptions of The Shire? few would disagree that they were from the UK, and specifically from England. But where in England...

Whats this about the Scouring of the Shire not being in the movies??? THATS MY FAVORITE CHAPTER!!! and if Scouring is out... what will become of Saruman? Will he be killed in TT at Orthanc? Will he just be set free after being rid of his powers, and wander Middle Earth?

That one jumped out as something that I didn't quite see the logic in. There is of course the single solitary bad man incursion by Sharkey's gang that is routed by the returning companions. But with Bree as a model of 'cant we just all get along' and the king reestablishing control and order...

In Rivendell soon after Frodo awkes he talks to Gandlaf about what has happened. Somewhere in this short explanation Gandalf says that there is a power protecting Rivendell and some other places(Lorien, I assume) but a power of a different kind protecting the Shire. I assume part of the power...