The Encyclopedia of Arda - Shire-hobbits (original) (raw)
| Dates The Shire was founded in III 1601, and expanded to include the Westmarch in IV 31 (1452 by the Shire-reckoning) Location The Shire, the lands westward of the Brandywine in the middle regions of Eriador Origins The first Hobbits settled the Shire having travelled westward from Bree 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 Indexes: Alphabetical: S Hobbits About this entry: Updated 3 January 2009 Updates planned: 1 |
The Halflings of the Shire 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...]Briffo Boffin, Brown Family, Bucca of the Marish, Buckland, Bucklanders, Budgeford, Bunce Family, Bywater Road, Chica Chubb, Chief’s Men, Chubb Family, Deephallow, Deputy Mayor, Diggle Family, Dina Diggle, East Road, Eastfarthing of the Shire, Eleventy, Elostirion, Fastred of Greenholm, First Shirriff, Forelithe, Foreyule, Four Farthings, Free Land, Full Muster, Galabas, Galbasi, Gamgee Family, Gammidge Family, Gamwich Family, Gardner Family, Gilly Brownlock, Goldilocks Gamgee, Goldworthy Family, Goodchild Family, Goold Family, Great Bridge, Great Road, Green Hills, Grubb Family, Gwirith, Hares, Harvestmath, ‘Herblore of the Shire’, High Hay, Highday, Hithui, Hobbit-speech, Hobbiton Hill, Hobbits of the Shire, Inside, Ivy, Laburnums, Lily Baggins, Lithe, Lithedays, Lotho Sackville-Baggins, Men of the Long Lake, Men out of the South, Menegilda Goold, Menelya, Meresdei, Mersday, Messenger Service, Mewlips, Midsummer, Monday, Mungo Baggins, New Year, ‘Old Words and Names in the Shire’, Ormenel, Overlithe, Pimple, Puddifoot Family, ‘Reckoning of Years’, Rhymes of Lore, River Baranduin, Rufus Burrows, Sackville Family, Sackville-Baggins Family, Saruman, Scary, Sharkey’s End, Shire Calendar, Shire-muster, Shire-reform, Shire-thain, Smallburrow Family, Smials, Springle-ring, Sunday, Sunlands, Swertings, The Boss, The Guardians, The River, The Rules, The Shire, The Towers, The Towers, The Watch, The Water, Toads, Tolman ‘Tom’ Cotton, junior, Tolman ‘Tom’ Cotton, senior, Travellers, Trewesdei, Undertowers, Vines, War of the Ring, Warden of Westmarch, Waymeet, White Towers, Whitfoot Family, Wintring, Woody End, Yavannië, Yáviérë, Yuletide Indexes: Alphabetical: S Hobbits About this entry: Updated 3 January 2009 Updates planned: 1 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. |