Shire-hobbits

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The Shire-hobbits or Shire-folk were the Hobbits that lived in the Shire, as opposed to Bree-hobbits and Bucklanders. They represented the majority of the whole Hobbitish population of Middle-earth. Shire-hobbits called everyone else "Outsiders". Due to living in the Shire, the Shire-hobbits were largely sheltered from the rest Middle-earth and did not know what was going on outside of the Shire, nor did they pay attention to wThe hat was going on outside of the Shire.[source?]

The Hobbits of the Shire were considered the most rustic and pastoral of their kind. The most important family among the Shire-hobbits were the Tooks of the Westfarthing, who had held the hereditary, and largely honorary, title of Thain from T.A. 2340.

The Shire-hobbits had a general interest in genealogy, and after the War of the Ring the learned among them developed a wider interest in ancient history, were very interested in chronology and even drew up complicated tables showing the relations of the Shire Calendar with other systems, in the Red Book.[1]

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