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Dates

Founded in III 1601 (year 1 by the Shire-reckoning), and expanded to include Buckland in III 2340, and the Westmarch in IV 31 (respectively 740 and 1452 by the Shire-reckoning)

Location

Eriador in the northwest of Middle-earth

Origins

Settled by the brothers Marcho and Blanco, travelling west from Bree

Race

Culture

Settlements

Numerous, including Brockenbores, Budgeford, Bywater, Deephallow, Dwaling, Frogmorton, Hobbiton, Little Delving, Longbottom, Michel Delving, Needlehole, Nobottle, Oatbarton, Overhill, Pincup, Rushey, Scary, Stock, Tookbank, Tuckborough, Underhill, Waymeet, Whitfurrows and Willowbottom

Meaning

Halflings refers to the fact that the Hobbits were approximately half the height of one of the Dúnedain

Other names

The Four Farthings, The Shire, Sûza; perhaps also known as the Western Land

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Land of the Halflings

A name for the Shire

Years of the TreesFirst AgeISecond AgeIIThird AgeIIIFourth AgeIV

A partial map of the Shire

The central regions of the Shire, Land of the Halflings
(partially conjectural)

The central regions of the Shire, Land of the Halflings
(partially conjectural)

The Shire; the only region in the northwest of Middle-earth to be peopled only by Hobbits.

See also...

Argeleb II, Free Land, Second Chief, Western Land

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