Haysend

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Haysend
Unknown[note 1]
General Information
LocationBuckland
TypeUnknown[note 1]
InhabitantsHobbits

Haysend was a location[note 1] at the southern tip of Buckland, at the place where the River Withywindle flowed out of the Old Forest into the Brandywine.[1] It was named for the fact that it stood at the end of the High Hay, the Hedge raised to protect the Bucklanders from the strange things that lived in the Forest and beyond it.

According to the poem "Bombadil Goes Boating", its inhabitants had a more fierce and protective attitude than most Hobbits, which is hardly surprising given the perilous location of their village.[2]

Etymology

The name means "hay's end", the end of the hedge or boundary-hedge.[3]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 It is not clear what is at the Haysend: Christopher Tolkien notes that in A Part of the Shire the main road of Buckland stops right at Standelf and doesn't continue to Haysend; in that map (as well as its previous drafts) it is not marked as being a habitation. See The Return of the Shadow pp. 298-9

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