SHARE- Cities and buildings
- Fields, plains and deserts
- Forests
- Hills and mountains
- Islands and promontories
- Lands, realms and regions
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Dates
The Shire was founded in III 1601, and expanded to include the Westmarch in IV 31 (1452 by the Shire-reckoning)
Location
Origins
Race
Settlements
The chief town of the Shire-hobbits was Michel Delving; other towns and villages included Brockenbores, Budgeford, Bywater, Deephallow, Dwaling, Frogmorton, Hobbiton, Little Delving, Longbottom, Needlehole, Nobottle, Oatbarton, Overhill, Pincup, Rushey, Scary, Stock, Tookbank, Tuckborough, Underhill, Waymeet, Whitfurrows, Willowbottom
Meaning
Shire derives from Old English scír, meaning a land granted as a fiefdom; Hobbits comes from holbytlan, meaning 'hole-builders'
Other names
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The Hobbits of the Shire; the descendants and followers of Marcho and Blanco, the two Bree-hobbits who founded the Shire. Among the Shire-hobbits were representatives of each of the three main types of Hobbit, the Stoors, Harfoots and Fallohides. Shire-hobbits were considered the most rustic and pastoral of their kind, even by other Hobbits (such as those of Bree or Buckland). The most important family among the Shire-hobbits were the Tooks of the Westfarthing, who had held the hereditary, and largely honorary, title of Thain from III 2340. See also...Aduial, Afteryule, Alfrida of the Yale, Baggins Family, Banks Family, Battle of Bywater, Berylla Boffin, Big People, Blodmath, Blommath, Bounders, Bracegirdle Family, Bree-landers, Briar, Bridge of Stonebows, [See the full list...] For acknowledgements and references, see the Disclaimer & Bibliography page. Original content © copyright Mark Fisher 1998, 2001, 2009. All rights reserved. For conditions of reuse, see the Site FAQ. Website services kindly sponsored by Discus from Axiom Software Ltd.How well does a leader fit their team? A Discus team report covers the team leader and their role. |
