Hobbits first came
to the Shire in the year 1601. The Fallohide brothers Marcho and Blanco
had obtained permission from King Argeleb II at Fornost to settle the
lands between the Brandywine and the Far Downs. They led a large group
of Hobbits from Bree west across the Brandywine and called the land
Suza, or "the Shire."
In the year 1630, a number of Stoors from Dunland came to join them,
and the Shire soon became the homeland of Hobbits in Middle-earth.
By and large the Hobbits
of the Shire had a peaceful, prosperous, and sheltered existence. They
rarely ventured farther afield than Bree, and to many of the peoples
outside the Shire Hobbits had faded into memory and legend. Their main
claim to fame was the cultivation of pipe-weed - which Tobold Hornblower
had first grown in the Southfarthing around 2670 - but though the art
of smoking spread among the races of Middle-earth,
few were aware of its source.
There were a few Hobbits
of a more adventurous nature who traveled beyond the borders of the
Shire into the wide world.The most notable of these was Bilbo
Baggins,
who embarked on the
quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from Smaug the Dragon in 2941.
It was on this journey that Bilbo found the One
Ring,
an event that had a
profound effect on the Shire and all of Middle-earth.
By the year 3001, when
Bilbo left the Shire and gave the Ring to his heir Frodo
Baggins, there were increasing reports of strange people and creatures
on the borders. The number of Bounders was increased, and unbeknownst
to the Hobbits, the Rangers
of the North were also on guard, protecting the Shire from intrusion
by Outsiders.
When Frodo learned
that the Ring in his possession was the Ruling
Ring made by the Dark Lord Sauron, he realized that he would have to
leave the Shire in order
to save the land he loved.
Frodo left the Shire on September 26, 3018, accompanied by Sam
Gamgee, Merry Brandybuck, and Pippin
Took. Earlier that week on September 23, Black
Riders seeking the Ring had entered the Shire, sweeping away the
guard of Rangers at Sarn Ford. The Black Riders rode eastward out of
the Shire in pursuit of the Ringbearer.
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