The Encyclopedia of Arda - Whitfurrows (original) (raw)

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Dates Founded no earlier than the settlement of the Shire in III 1601 Location In the Shire's Eastfarthing, on the East Road between Frogmorton and the Brandywine Bridge Race Hobbits Culture Shire-hobbits Meaning 'White furrows'1 Indexes: Alphabetical: W Cities and Buildings About this entry: Updated 5 September 2018 This entry is complete A village of the Eastfarthing Years of the Trees First Age I Second Age II Third Age III Fourth Age IV A village or small town that lay on the East Road through the Shire, approximately midway between Frogmorton (about ten miles to the west) and the Brandywine Bridge (a similar distance to the east). It lay at the western edge of the Bridgefields region of the Eastfarthing. Whitfurrows is hardly mentioned within Tolkien's work, though it does appear to have been a centre or staging-post of some kind for the Shirriffs during the War of the Ring. Notes 1 'Furrows' are the tracks left in newly-ploughed soil, and the fact that they were evidently white implies that the land around Whitfurrows had chalky soil. This is consistent with various other references to the land around the Shire being heavy in chalk. For example, when the Town Hole at Michel Delving collapsed, Mayor Will Whitfoot was 'buried in chalk' (The Fellowship of the Ring I 9, At the Sign of the Prancing Pony). This is reinforced by the fact that Michel Delving stood on the White Downs, and indeed the name 'Whitfoot' itself, meaning 'white foot', gives us another potential connection to chalk. Michel Delving was the in the west of the Shire, but the chalk deposits clearly ran some way to the east, through Whitfurrows and beyond. When Frodo and his companions visited Tom Bombadil, whose house lay east of the Shire beyond the Old Forest, they found a 'white chalky path' leading to his door (The Fellowship of the Ring I 8, In the House of Tom Bombadil). See also... Bridgefields, Eastfarthing of the Shire, Folklands, Four Farthings, The Yale, Water-valley Indexes: Alphabetical: W Cities and Buildings About this entry: Updated 5 September 2018 This entry is complete For acknowledgements and references, see the Disclaimer & Bibliography page. Original content © copyright Mark Fisher 2004, 2018. All rights reserved. For conditions of reuse, see the Site FAQ. Website services kindly sponsored by Discus from Axiom Software Ltd.Discover how DISC fits together with our FREE and comprehensive Complete Introduction to DISC.

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Dates Founded no earlier than the settlement of the Shire in III 1601 Location In the Shire's Eastfarthing, on the East Road between Frogmorton and the Brandywine Bridge Race Hobbits Culture Shire-hobbits Meaning 'White furrows'1 Indexes: Alphabetical: W Cities and Buildings About this entry: Updated 5 September 2018 This entry is complete A village of the Eastfarthing

Years of the Trees First Age I Second Age II Third Age III Fourth Age IV Map of Whitfurrows

A village or small town that lay on the East Road through the Shire, approximately midway between Frogmorton (about ten miles to the west) and the Brandywine Bridge (a similar distance to the east). It lay at the western edge of the Bridgefields region of the Eastfarthing. Whitfurrows is hardly mentioned within Tolkien's work, though it does appear to have been a centre or staging-post of some kind for the Shirriffs during the War of the Ring. Notes 1 'Furrows' are the tracks left in newly-ploughed soil, and the fact that they were evidently white implies that the land around Whitfurrows had chalky soil. This is consistent with various other references to the land around the Shire being heavy in chalk. For example, when the Town Hole at Michel Delving collapsed, Mayor Will Whitfoot was 'buried in chalk' (The Fellowship of the Ring I 9, At the Sign of the Prancing Pony). This is reinforced by the fact that Michel Delving stood on the White Downs, and indeed the name 'Whitfoot' itself, meaning 'white foot', gives us another potential connection to chalk. Michel Delving was the in the west of the Shire, but the chalk deposits clearly ran some way to the east, through Whitfurrows and beyond. When Frodo and his companions visited Tom Bombadil, whose house lay east of the Shire beyond the Old Forest, they found a 'white chalky path' leading to his door (The Fellowship of the Ring I 8, In the House of Tom Bombadil). See also... Bridgefields, Eastfarthing of the Shire, Folklands, Four Farthings, The Yale, Water-valley Indexes: Alphabetical: W Cities and Buildings About this entry: Updated 5 September 2018 This entry is complete For acknowledgements and references, see the Disclaimer & Bibliography page. Original content © copyright Mark Fisher 2004, 2018. All rights reserved. For conditions of reuse, see the Site FAQ. Website services kindly sponsored by Discus from Axiom Software Ltd.Discover how DISC fits together with our FREE and comprehensive Complete Introduction to DISC.