Tour 2: The Places of Middle-Earth
The Shire
Hobbiton, by Roger Garland
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Middle-Earth Tours Tour 2: The Places of Middle-Earth
The Shire |
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| Forty leagues it stretched from the Fox Downs to the Brandywine Bridge, and fifty from the western moors to the marshes in the south. The Hobbits named it the Shire, as the region of the authority of their Thain, and a district of well-ordered business; and there in that pleasant corner of the world they plied their well-ordered business of living, and they heeded less and less the world outside where dark things moved, until they came to think that peace and plenty were the rule in Middle-Earth and the right of all sensible folk.... --FotR, Prologue, "Concerning Hobbits" | Hobbiton, by Roger Garland |
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| As Bilbo himself once said, "The Road goes ever on and on / Down from the door where it began." Taking a cue from him, we begin our tour of Middle-earth in Mr. Baggins' own home, Bag End. |
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