https://tolkiengateway.net/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Aule+the+Smith&feedformat=atomTolkien Gateway - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T07:23:37ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.39.3https://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Tolkien_Gateway_talk:Meetings/5_September_2010&diff=124455Tolkien Gateway talk:Meetings/5 September 20102010-09-02T13:42:45Z<p>Aule the Smith: </p>
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<div>Please put any ideas for the agenda and any general discussion here. Remember please sign your name below if you are going to attend.<br />
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==Attendees==<br />
# --{{User:Mith/sig}} 17:47, 30 August 2010 (UTC)<br />
# --{{User:Ederchil/sig}} 18:03, 30 August 2010 (UTC)<br />
# --[[User:Morgan|Morgan]] 18:13, 30 August 2010 (UTC)<br />
# --{{User:KingAragorn/sig}} 20:12, 30 August 2010 (UTC)<br />
# —[[User:Mithrennaith|Mithrennaith]] 22:11, 30 August 2010 (UTC) <br />
# --[[User:Hyarion|Hyarion]] 03:48, 31 August 2010 (UTC)<br />
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==Ideas for Agenda==<br />
* Nag Hyarion about the Show/Hide extension. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 18:03, 30 August 2010 (UTC)<br />
* Just generally nag Hyarion. --{{User:KingAragorn/sig}} 20:12, 30 August 2010 (UTC)<br />
* Make up some good excuses. --[[User:Hyarion|Hyarion]] 03:48, 31 August 2010 (UTC)<br />
* Check the ideas for [[Tolkien Gateway talk:Meetings/1 August 2010|1st August]] and see what still needs discussing/merits attention. — [[User:Mithrennaith|Mithrennaith]] 22:11, 30 August 2010 (UTC)<br />
* [[Special:Wantedpages|Redlinks]] (currently 7,177 of them). --{{User:Mith/sig}} 13:41, 1 September 2010 (UTC)<br />
* <s>Articles that still consist of "seed content" from other sites. {{User:Aule the Smith/sig}} 13:48, 1 September 2010 (UTC)</s><br />
** We do have a(n unwritten) policy on this: when we come across one such pilfered article, we should rewrite it there and then, or tag it for a rewrite, or else provide a link to the Encyclopedia of Arda or Wikipedia. They are a relic from a time long along when we were still young, but unfortunately there's no record of which articles came from elsewhere, so we can't find them unless we stumble across them. --{{User:Mith/sig}} 14:03, 1 September 2010 (UTC)<br />
*** Ah OK. I was just going to suggest making that a (written) policy and making a specific tag for it. If its already accepted practice then there's nothing really to discuss. {{User:Aule the Smith/sig}} 14:07, 1 September 2010 (UTC)<br />
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==Discussion==</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Category_talk:Towns_and_Villages_in_the_Shire&diff=124454Category talk:Towns and Villages in the Shire2010-09-02T13:41:10Z<p>Aule the Smith: I'm sick of this shit.</p>
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<div>I don't know if you are aware, but I am currently in the middle of reorganising the categories for Locations articles. The overall structure of it is located at [[User:KingAragorn/Sandbox2]]. I created that structure after long consideration and I came to the conclusion that we shouldn't have 'Cities of...', 'Swamps of...', 'Harbours of...' etc. I know it's a lot of work recategorising - I would have posted something sooner, but this has sprung up so fast. --{{User:KingAragorn/sig}} 21:36, 1 September 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:Well, I can't say I agree, but I'm too tired to argue the point right now. I only wanted to break up [[:Category:Shire]] so I'll restore [[:Category:Cities, Towns and Villages]] (ditto for rivers). {{User:Aule the Smith/sig}} 21:40, 1 September 2010 (UTC)<br />
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::I can revert them, if it'll save you the time? --{{User:Mith/sig}} 21:42, 1 September 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::No I'm not undoing all of my edits, just the ones that interfered with KingAragorn's structure for locations. {{User:Aule the Smith/sig}} 22:04, 1 September 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::hmm... They all interfered with my structure for Locations. :/ I don't see why we need so many (in fact any subcategories) for The Shire. --{{User:KingAragorn/sig}}<br />
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::::As a rule I think large categories should be split up, but that's a whole big policy thing I don't want to get into. [[:Category:Shire]] contains/contained a lot of article that weren't geographical in nature (titles, etc.), does your reorganization of Locations give you ownership of ever category that overlaps with a location-based one? If so you probably 'own' every article we have. I went back and changed what I did so the two category schemes (yours under Locations, mine under Shire) would exist in parallel and not intersect, I don't know what more you want.<br />
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::::You know what, fuck it, you can't do anything on this site without stepping on somebody's 'territory'. I don't know why I even bothered. {{User:Aule the Smith/sig}} 07:24, 2 September 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::::As part of the reorganisation, I was in fact going to sort out The Shire. I personally don't like seeing a category nearly empty when it can be avoided.<br />
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:::::I don't know what your problem is. I don't see why we couldn't have had a simple discussion, but yet again you've turned it into something else. You mention "you can't do anything on this site without stepping on somebody's 'territory'"; I've noticed that you like to put your foot in other people's work whilst they're in the middle of doing it. For instance, why did you decide to break-down The Shire yesterday? Why not the day before I started, why not weeks ago, why now? Do you get a thrill out of pissing other editors off? --{{User:KingAragorn/sig}} 12:49, 2 September 2010 (UTC)<br />
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::::::Funnily enough I don't make a point of keeping track of exactly where and when you're editing. Perhaps you and Mith should make a list of exactly which articles and categories belong to you so people don't get confused and, you know, think that anyone can edit them. {{User:Aule the Smith/sig}} 13:41, 2 September 2010 (UTC)</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Category_talk:Towns_and_Villages_in_the_Shire&diff=124424Category talk:Towns and Villages in the Shire2010-09-02T07:24:48Z<p>Aule the Smith: </p>
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<div>I don't know if you are aware, but I am currently in the middle of reorganising the categories for Locations articles. The overall structure of it is located at [[User:KingAragorn/Sandbox2]]. I created that structure after long consideration and I came to the conclusion that we shouldn't have 'Cities of...', 'Swamps of...', 'Harbours of...' etc. I know it's a lot of work recategorising - I would have posted something sooner, but this has sprung up so fast. --{{User:KingAragorn/sig}} 21:36, 1 September 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:Well, I can't say I agree, but I'm too tired to argue the point right now. I only wanted to break up [[:Category:Shire]] so I'll restore [[:Category:Cities, Towns and Villages]] (ditto for rivers). {{User:Aule the Smith/sig}} 21:40, 1 September 2010 (UTC)<br />
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::I can revert them, if it'll save you the time? --{{User:Mith/sig}} 21:42, 1 September 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::No I'm not undoing all of my edits, just the ones that interfered with KingAragorn's structure for locations. {{User:Aule the Smith/sig}} 22:04, 1 September 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::hmm... They all interfered with my structure for Locations. :/ I don't see why we need so many (in fact any subcategories) for The Shire. --{{User:KingAragorn/sig}}<br />
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::::As a rule I think large categories should be split up, but that's a whole big policy thing I don't want to get into. [[:Category:Shire]] contains/contained a lot of article that weren't geographical in nature (titles, etc.), does your reorganization of Locations give you ownership of ever category that overlaps with a location-based one? If so you probably 'own' every article we have. I went back and changed what I did so the two category schemes (yours under Locations, mine under Shire) would exist in parallel and not intersect, I don't know what more you want.<br />
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::::You know what, fuck it, you can't do anything on this site without stepping on somebody's 'territory'. I don't know why I even bothered. {{User:Aule the Smith/sig}} 07:24, 2 September 2010 (UTC)</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Fell_Winter_(Third_Age)&diff=124400Fell Winter (Third Age)2010-09-01T22:47:03Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>{{sources}}{{disambig-two|the Fell Winter of the [[Third Age]]|Fell Winter of the [[First Age]]|[[Fell Winter (First Age)]]}}<br />
The '''Fell Winter''' ([[Third Age]] 2911 – 2912) was an extremely cold and long-lasting winter in [[Middle-earth]].<br />
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Like the earlier [[Long Winter]] of 2758 – 2759, the Fell Winter began in November. This time [[Sauron]] was not able to launch a full attack, as the [[War of the Dwarves and Orcs]] of a full century earlier had eliminated most of his [[Orcs]] in the north, and the [[Haradrim]] had been badly defeated in 2885.<br />
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The winter was also less harsh than the Long Winter, and snow and ice stopped in Eriador at the [[Greyflood]] river, and in [[Wilderland]] in the middle of Mirkwood. Nevertheless there were severe problems, as food again ran short, and the [[Hobbits|Hobbits]] of [[The Shire]] were attacked by wolves which crossed the frozen [[Brandywine]] river. [[Gandalf]] and the [[Rangers of the North]] had to provide food for the Hobbits to prevent them from dying of hunger.<br />
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In March when the winter ended great floods of meltwater rushed down [[Greyflood]], and the city of [[Tharbad]] was ruined and its bridge broken. The people of [[Enedwaith]] also suffered greatly as their lands were flooded.<br />
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* [[Fell Winter (First Age)]]<br />
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[[fi:Tuima Talvi (Kolmas Aika)]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Great_Plague&diff=124399Great Plague2010-09-01T22:46:36Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>The '''Great Plague''', also known as the [[Dark Plague]] was a disastrous pestilence that killed untold numbers of people that possibly went up into the hundreds of thousands.<br />
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The Great Plague began in the east beyond [[Mordor]], reaching [[Osgiliath]] in 1636 of the [[Third Age]], just a year after King [[Minardil]] of [[Gondor]] had been killed at [[Pelargir]] by the [[Corsairs of Umbar]], and only two centuries after the [[Kin-strife]] of Gondor. The new king, [[Telemnar]] was killed together with his kin, as well as many others of the [[Dúnedain]]. After the Kin-strife this further destroyed the people of Gondor.<br />
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The Plague had first hit [[Rhûn]] and [[Rhovanion (region)|Rhovanion]], and after it had passed more than half the folk of the [[Rhovanion (Realm)|Kingdom of Rhovanion]] had been killed. From [[Osgiliath]] the plague spread west and then north. [[Enedwaith]] and [[Dunland]] were scarcely affected, but the Plague regained strength as it went north, and [[Minhiriath]] (the southern part of [[Cardolan]]) was especially hit hard. The last of the Dúnedain of Cardolan died on the [[Barrow-downs]], and evil spirits from [[Angmar]] and [[Rhudaur]] entered the realm.<br />
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[[Arthedain]] further to the north and [[the Shire]] were scarcely affected, although the [[Hobbits]] recorded casualties in the South Farthing. Arthedain still defended [[Fornost]] to the north.<br />
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The city of Osgiliath was especially hit hard, suffering the highest casualties outside of Rhovanion. Many fled the city and removed to [[Ithilien]] and [[Anórien]], and [[Minas Anor]] became the King's seat.<br />
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The casualties were so high that the fortresses guarding [[Mordor]] were abandoned as the troops were recalled. For the next two centuries Gondor, as well as its enemies, did little but try and regain strength.<br />
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[[fi:Suuri Rutto]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Long_Winter&diff=124398Long Winter2010-09-01T22:46:14Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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| location=[[Eriador]], [[Dunland]], [[Rohan]]<br />
| date=[[November]] to [[March]], {{TA|2758}} - [[Third Age 2789|2759]]<br />
| result=Thousands of lives lost in Rohan and [[The Shire]]<br />
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|}}The '''Long Winter''' (November {{TA|2758}} to March [[Third Age 2789|2759]]<ref name="Eorl">{{App|Eorl}}</ref>) was an extremely cold and long-lasting winter in [[Middle-earth]], covering [[Eriador]], [[Dunland]] and [[Rohan]].<br />
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===Rohan===<br />
In {{TA|2758}}, [[Easterlings]] and [[Dunlendings]] (led by [[Wulf]]) attacked [[Rohan]] from both the north-west and east; not only was [[Gondor]] unable to help due its war with the [[Corsairs of Umbar|Corsairs]], but the Dunlendings were strengthened with the enemies of Gondor who had travelled up the rivers [[Isen]] and [[Lefnui]]. The [[Rohirrim]] were defeated; [[Kings of Rohan|King]] [[Helm Hammerhand]]'s son, [[Haleth (son of Helm)|Haleth]], was killed; and Wulf sat in [[Meduseld]] declaring himself King.<ref name="Eorl"/><br />
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The Long Winter compounded the problems: Rohan was under snow for five months with both the Rohirrim and their enemies suffering grievously from famine. Meanwhile, King Helm took refuge in the [[Hornburg]] and the ravine behind (becoming known as [[Helm's Deep]]): at [[Yule]] a great counsel was held, and, against the King's advice, [[Háma]], Helm's younger son, went out in a sortie and was lost in the snow. King Helm himself would secretly go out to enemy camps, clad in white, and slay many men with his bare hands - before he left he would always blow his great horn, striking fear into the hearts of his enemies. One day, the men heard Helm's great horn blowing in the [[Deeping-coomb]], but when they came to him, they saw that he had died, standing upright.<ref name="Eorl"/><br />
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Come March {{TA|2759}}, the Long Winter ended and [[Fréaláf Hildeson]], Helm's sister-son and new King of Rohan, came from [[Dunharrow]] and took back [[Edoras]], catching the Dunlendings unaware and killing [[Wulf]]; the Dunlendings and Easterlings were driven out of Rohan (including [[Isengard]]), or else they had perished. The melted snow caused great floods with the [[Entwash]] becoming a vast fen; and in the spring, once [[Beregond (Steward of Gondor)|Beregond]], son of [[Stewards of Gondor|Steward]] [[Beren (Steward of Gondor)|Beren]], had defeated the invaders from the south, [[Gondor]] sent aid to [[Rohan]].<br />
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Although the Long Winter did not affect [[Gondor]] directly, it did have an indirect affect: in {{TA|2758}}, three fleets<ref name="Eorl"/> of [[Corsairs of Umbar|Corsairs]] and [[Haradrim]] began to assail the coasts of Gondor as far north as the [[Isen|River Isen]];<ref name="Steward">{{App|Stewards}}</ref> due to the dual perils of the Long Winter and the war with the Dunlendings, the [[Rohirrim]] were unable to send help.<ref name="Elendil">{{PM|Elendil}}, p. 205</ref><br />
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After [[Beregond (Steward of Gondor)|Beregond]] had defeated the invaders, Gondor began to recover to its former power. However, in {{TA|2758}}, seeing [[Rohan]]'s weakness, the [[Stewards of Gondor|Steward]], [[Beren (Steward of Gondor)|Beren]] gave the keys to [[Orthanc]] to the [[Wizards|wizard]] [[Saruman]].<ref name="Steward">{{App|Stewards}}</ref><br />
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===The Shire===<br />
It is told in both [[Appendix B|The Tale of Years]] and the [[The Lord of the Rings Prologue|Prologue]] that the Long Winter resulted in the deaths of many thousands of [[Hobbits]] in [[The Shire]].<ref name="Prologue">{{FR|Hobbits}}</ref> Although the [[Wizards|wizard]] [[Gandalf]] came to the aid of the Hobbits,<ref name="B">{{App|B2}}</ref> a dreadful famine followed the Long Winter, known as the [[Days of Dearth]], which lasted into {{TA|2960}}.<br />
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The Long Winter had a more indirect effect on the history of The Shire, [[The One Ring]] and [[Middle-earth]]: it was during the Long Winter that Gandalf first became fond of [[Hobbits]] and their affairs, which indirectly led to Gandalf's selection of [[Bilbo Baggins]] to go on the [[The Hobbit#Synopsis|Quest of Erebor]]: <br />
{{quote|<nowiki>'</nowiki>And then there was the Shire-folk. I began to have a warm place in my heart for them in the Long Winter, which none of you can remember. They were very hard put to it then: one of the worst pinches they have been in, dying of cold, and starving in the dreadful dearth that followed. But that was the time to see their courage, and their pity one for another. It was by their pity as much as their tough uncomplaining courage that they survived. I wanted them to survive. [...] And anyway you must begin at some point, with some on person. I dare say he was "chosen" and I was only chosen to choose him; but I picked out Bilbo.<nowiki>'</nowiki>|[[Gandalf]] speaking to [[Peregrin Took|Pippin]]<ref name="UT">{{UT|Erebor}}</ref><ref name="Annotated Hobbit">[[J.R.R. Tolkien]] and [[Douglas A. Anderson]], ''[[The Annotated Hobbit]]'', "Appendix A. The Quest of Erebor", p. 370</ref>}}<br />
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*[[Fell Winter (Third Age)|Fell Winter]] ({{TA|2911}}-[[Third Age 2912|2912]])<br />
*[[Great Plague]] ({{TA|1636}})<br />
*[[Fell Winter (First Age)|Fell Winter]] ({{FA|495}}-[[First Age 496|496]])<br />
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<div>[[Category:Shire]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Wandering_Days&diff=124396Wandering Days2010-09-01T22:45:23Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>The '''Wandering Days''' is the term used by [[Hobbits]] to refer to the centuries-long period of their westward migration from their races' ancestral home somewhere in the wild East (probably in the upper vales of the river Anduin). <br />
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Over many generations the Hobbits drifted westward until around [[Third Age 1050]] many were settled until the [[Weather Hills]], but many [[Stoors]] settled near [[Tharbad]] in [[Dunland]]. In [[Third Age 1300|T.A. 1300]] the northern Hobbits had to flee from [[Angmar]] and some Stoors returned to the [[Gladden Fields|Gladden]]. The others continued westward and their first settlements were in [[Bree]] and [[Staddle]].<br />
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Eventually, in the year [[Third Age 1601|T.A. 1601]] a large population of Hobbits was granted permission by King [[Argeleb II]], one of the least few Kings of [[Arthedain]], to colonize the region beyond the [[Brandywine]], and were later joined by the Stoors of Dunland. This would become [[The Shire]], the main homeland of most of Hobbit-kind.<br />
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The oral history and memory of the Hobbits does not extend further back than their "Wandering Days", with their exact origins having been lost.<br />
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<div>The '''Days of Dearth''' was the period of famine in [[The Shire]] following the [[Long Winter]].<ref name="Hobbits">{{FR|Hobbits}}.</ref><br />
The Long Winter was a bitterly cold winter (lasting from [[November]] {{TA|2758}} to March [[Third Age 2759|2759]])<ref name="Eorl">{{App|Eorl}}.</ref> in which many thousands of [[Hobbits]] died. The famine continued into the year {{TA|2760}}.<br />
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*[[Fell Winter (Third Age)|Fell Winter]] ({{TA|2911}}-[[Third Age 2912|2912]])<br />
*[[Great Plague]] ({{TA|1636}})<br />
*[[Fell Winter (First Age)|Fell Winter]] ({{FA|495}}-[[First Age 496|496]])<br />
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[[Category:History of the Shire]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Greenfields&diff=124392Battle of Greenfields2010-09-01T22:44:53Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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| conflict=Series of Orc-invasions in northern Eriador<br />
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| place=[[Greenfields]], [[Northfarthing]]<br />
| result=Victory for the [[Hobbits]]<br />
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| commanders1=[[Bandobras Took|Bandobras "Bullroarer" Took]]<br />
| commanders2=[[Golfimbul]] †<br />
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The '''Battle of Greenfields''' or '''Battle of the Green Fields'''<ref name="Party">[[J.R.R. Tolkien]], ''[[The Hobbit]]'', "[[An Unexpected Party]]"</ref> was the first battle fought in [[the Shire]], and the only one until the [[Battle of Bywater]].<ref name="Scouring">[[J.R.R. Tolkien]], ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', ''[[The Return of the King]]'', "[[The Scouring of the Shire]]"</ref> <br />
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The Shire was generally untroubled by any harm for the first 1140 years of its history. [[Eriador]] was quiet until [[Third Age 2740]], when [[Orcs of the Misty Mountains]] invaded several parts of Eriador.<ref name="AppB">{{HM|AB}}, "The Third Age"</ref><br />
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The [[Rangers of the North]] fought many battles trying to hold them back, but one party managed to reach the Shire.<br />
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===Battle===<br />
Seven years after the start of the unrest, a band of Orcs of [[Mount Gram]], led by their king [[Golfimbul]], entered the [[Northfarthing]].<ref name="Scouring"/> [[Bandobras Took]], who was living in [[Long Cleeve]], crossed the river [[Norbourn]] to engage them in the region known as Greenfields, between the Norbourn and the [[Brandywine]].<ref name="Index">[[J.R.R. Tolkien]], "Unfinished Index", cited in: [[Wayne G. Hammond]], [[Christina Scull]], ''[[The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion]]'', page 24</ref> Large enough to ride a horse, Bandobras clove through the ranks of the Orc-band and knocked Golfimbul's head off with his club. The head landed in a [[Rabbits|rabbit]]-hole a hundred yards away, inventing, according to Hobbit folklore, the game of [[golf]].<ref name="Party"/> The rest of the orcs were routed.<ref name="Concerning">[[J.R.R. Tolkien]], ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', "Prologue: Concerning Hobbits"</ref><br />
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===Aftermath===<br />
With the route of the orcs and the death of their king, the short uprisings in Eriador ceased.<ref name="Index"/> The Shire, and Eriador as a whole, would not suffer from any more invasions until the [[War of the Ring]].<ref name="Scouring"/><br />
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==Other versions of the legendarium==<br />
In the first phase of ''The Hobbit'', the battle was called the '''Battle of the Green Fields of Fellin''', and the goblin king was called "[[Fingolfin]]". In addition to golf, chess was also invented, because the battle was won by "checkmate".<ref name="Pryftan">[[J.R.R. Tolkien]], [[John D. Rateliff]] (ed.), ''[[The History of The Hobbit|Mr. Baggins]]'', "[[The Pryftan Fragment]]"</ref> The reference to chess was likely removed because it was a philologist's joke that would have gone over too many heads: "checkmate" comes from Persian ''shah mat'', "the King is Dead".<ref>"[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=checkmate Checkmate]", [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php Etymonline.com]</ref> <br />
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The name "Battle of the Green Fields" first arose in the second phase. The reference to chess was removed at this stage.<ref name="Bladorthin">[[J.R.R. Tolkien]], [[John D. Rateliff]] (ed.), ''[[The History of The Hobbit|Mr. Baggins]]'', "[[The Bladorthin Typescript]]"</ref><br />
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==Portrayal in Adaptations==<br />
'''2003: ''[[The Hobbit (2003 video game)|Sierra's The Hobbit]]'':'''<br />
:The first Hobbit outside [[Bag End]] recounts the story of Bandobras, followed by the accusations that young hobbits do not know enough about their history.<ref>''[[The Hobbit (2003 video game)]]'', "Hobbiton"</ref><br />
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'''2006: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II]]'':'''<br />
:In the evil campaign, the Goblins lay siege (and conquer) the Shire as part of their revenge; the Battle of Greenfields is not yet forgotten.<ref>''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II]]'', Evil Campain Stage 3: "The Shire"</ref><br />
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<div>A range of chalk downs in the western regions of the [[Shire]]; [[Michel Delving]], the chief town of the Shire, was built (and burrowed) there.<br />
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[[Category:Regions of the Shire]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Woody_End&diff=124383Woody End2010-09-01T22:41:20Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>'''Woody End''' was an upland wooded region of the [[Eastfarthing]] of the [[Shire]], lying between the [[Green Hill Country]] on the west and the [[Marish]] on the east.<br />
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[[fr:encyclo/geographie/forets/eriador/bout_des_bois]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Tookland&diff=124382Tookland2010-09-01T22:41:02Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>A wide region of the [[Shire]]'s [[Westfarthing]] that was the historical province of the Took clan, and so of the hereditary [[Thain|Thains]] of the Shire. The Tookland lay to the south of the [[East Road]], with its chief and central township at [[Tuckborough]] in the [[Green Hills]]. There, burrowed into the hillsides, was the famous and historic home of the Tooks, [[Great Smials]]. Somewhat to the west of Tuckborough lay the smaller of the Tookland's main settlements, [[Tookbank]].<br />
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'''Rushock Bog''' was a swamp on [[The Water]] in the [[Westfarthing]], south of [[Needlehole]] and to the north-west of [[Hobbiton]].<br />
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[[fi:Luikkasuo]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Overbourn_Marshes&diff=124380Overbourn Marshes2010-09-01T22:40:37Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>The '''Overbourn Marshes''' were located in the [[Southfarthing]], South of the [[Shirebourn]] river, where it flowed into the [[Brandywine]] river.<br />
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[[fi:Allikon takasuo]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Norbourn&diff=124379Norbourn2010-09-01T22:40:22Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>'''Norbourn''' was a river in the [[Northfarthing]] of the [[Shire]]. Between it and [[Brandywine]] River stretched [[Greenfields]], where the [[Battle of Greenfields]] was fought. Norbourn is only mentioned in the detailed index [[Tolkien]] was preparing for [[the Lord of the Rings]], but which was eventually left unfinished. In the partial map of the Shire published within the Lord of the Rings an unnamed river flows from the north to the [[Bywater Pool]]. It might be Norbourn, though it is also possible that Norbourn flowed straight to Brandywine more in the north.<br />
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* [[The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion]], pg. 24<br />
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[[Category:Rivers of the Shire]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Norbourn&diff=124377Norbourn2010-09-01T22:39:55Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>'''Norbourn''' was a river in the [[Northfarthing]] of the [[Shire]]. Between it and [[Brandywine]] River stretched [[Greenfields]], where the [[Battle of Greenfields]] was fought. Norbourn is only mentioned in the detailed index [[Tolkien]] was preparing for [[the Lord of the Rings]], but which was eventually left unfinished. In the partial map of the Shire published within the Lord of the Rings an unnamed river flows from the north to the [[Bywater Pool]]. It might be Norbourn, though it is also possible that Norbourn flowed straight to Brandywine more in the north.<br />
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==References==<br />
* [[The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion]], pg. 24<br />
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[[Category:Regions of the Shire]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Marish&diff=124376Marish2010-09-01T22:39:43Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>The '''Marish''' was a fertile but boggy farmland region on the western banks of the River [[Brandywine]], in the [[Eastfarthing]] of the [[Shire]].<br />
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[[fi:Neva]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Greenfields&diff=124375Greenfields2010-09-01T22:39:22Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>'''Greenfields''' was a region of the [[Northfarthing]] of the [[Shire]] between [[Norbourn]] and [[Brandywine]] rivers. In the year [[Third Age 2747|1147]] of the [[Shire-reckoning]] there was fought the [[Battle of Greenfields]] between invading [[orcs]] from the [[Mount Gram]] and [[Hobbitry-in-Arms]]. Hobbits claimed the victory after their leader [[Bandobras Took]] (nicknamed [[Bandobras Took|Bullroarer]]) stroke off the head of [[Goblins|goblin]] king [[Golfimbul]]. This was the only battle inside the boundaries of the Shire before the [[War of the Ring]] and the [[Battle of Bywater]].<br />
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==References==<br />
* [[The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion]], pg. 24<br />
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[[fi:Viherkentät]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Green_Hills&diff=124374Green Hills2010-09-01T22:39:11Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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The '''Green Hills''' was a range of hills that ran west-to-east through [[the Shire]], through three of the Shire's four [[Farthings]], and gave its name to the region known as the [[Green Hill Country]]. To the west, in the [[Tookland]], the hills were fairly open and treeless. In contrast, their eastern slopes towards [[Woody End]] were densely wooded with trees of all kinds.<br />
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At least three rivers and streams had their sources among the [[Green Hills]]; the River [[Shirebourn]], the [[Thistle Brook]] and the [[Stockbrook]]. One of the chief towns of the [[Shire-hobbits]], [[Tuckborough]], lay among the western hills, and other villages were to be found among their slopes, or about their feet, including [[Tookbank]], [[Woodhall]] and [[Pincup]].<br />
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'''Green Hill Country''' was a patch of country in the [[Shire]], marked out by the [[Green Hills]] that ran west to east through three of the Shire's four [[Farthings]].<br />
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The western feet of the Green Hills were in the [[Westfarthing]], in the lands of the [[Took Family|Tooks]]. From Tuckborough, a road ran eastwards through the Green Hill Country, and it was this that [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]], [[Samwise Gamgee|Sam]] and [[Peregrin Took|Pippin]] briefly used in their journey from [[Bag End]].<br />
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From their beginnings in the Westfarthing, the Hills cut through the northern corner of the [[Southfarthing]], where the village of [[Pincup]] lay on their southern slopes. Finally, they passed through the border into the [[Eastfarthing]], where they became densely wooded, and reached their eastern end at the appropriately named [[Woody End]].<br />
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[[fi:Vihervaarat]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Great_Smials&diff=124372Great Smials2010-09-01T22:38:42Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>The '''Great Smials''' was the ancestral home of the [[Took Family]], located at [[Tuckborough]] in the [[Westfarthing]] of the [[Shire]].<br />
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Their excavation began at [[Third Age 2683]] by [[Thain]] [[Isengrim Took II]]. They contained the [[Great Place of the Tooks]].<br />
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[[fi:Suuret Smialit]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Far_Downs&diff=124371Far Downs2010-09-01T22:38:14Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>The '''Far Downs''' were the downlands that marked the western borders of the [[Shire]], forty leagues (120 miles) west from the [[Brandywine Bridge]]. Of their geography almost nothing is known, except that the town of [[Greenholm]] seems to have been built among the Downs. It was from here that [[Fastred of Greenholm]] came, the first [[Warden of Westmarch]] that lay between the Far Downs and, still further westward, the [[Tower Hills]].<br />
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<div>'''Bridgefields''' was one of the most easterly regions of the [[Shire]], Bridgefields was a stretch of about ten miles that lay along the [[East Road]] immediately before it reached the [[Brandywine Bridge]] and left the Shire. In the western parts of Bridgefields were the townships of [[Whitfurrows]] and, a little to the north, [[Budgeford]] on the Water. Budgeford was best known as being the home of the [[Bolger Family|Bolger family]], one of whom - [[Fredegar Bolger|Fredegar]] - played a part in the departure of [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]] on his journey to [[Rivendell]].<br />
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[[fi:Sillanaho]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Quick_Post&diff=124359Quick Post2010-09-01T22:34:55Z<p>Aule the Smith: sources; recat</p>
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Mostly used for urgent correspondence, the '''Quick Post''' was the speediest way to get information from one [[Farthing]] to the next. Though not specifically stated, the transportation of such messages was most likely with the aid of [[ponies]].<br />
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[[Category:Shire]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Messenger_Service&diff=124355Messenger Service2010-09-01T22:32:54Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>The '''Messenger Service''' was the system used in the [[Shire]] for its inhabitants to communicate with each other. By this way, along with the [[Quick Post]], letters and news was passed between the four [[Farthings]]. The office of the [[Mayor of Michel Delving|Mayor]] was responsible for its efficiency.<br />
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[[Category:Organisations in the Shire]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Hobbits_of_the_Shire&diff=124354Hobbits of the Shire2010-09-01T22:32:21Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>The [[Hobbits]] who lived in the [[Shire]], the land between the [[White Downs]] and the River [[Brandywine]]. They are more often referred to as the [[Shire-hobbits]] or, especially, the [[Shire-folk]].<br />
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'''Andrath''' was the name given to a reach of the [[Greenway]] in the lands southward from [[Bree]]. For a stretch, the road ran through a narrow gorge between the [[Barrow-downs]] to the west, and the [[South Downs]] to the east. From this geography, no doubt, comes the name Andrath, which appears to mean "Long Street". According to some sources, it was at Andrath that the [[Lord of the Nazgûl]] encamped for a time during his search for the [[Shire]] and "[[Baggins Family|Baggins]]".<br />
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[[Category:Shire]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Shirriffs&diff=124335Shirriffs2010-09-01T22:24:34Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>'''Shirrifs''' were the sole law enforcement officials in [[the Shire]] and the main branch of the [[Watch]]. <br />
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Since in the Shire law is based solely on common sense and ancient tradition, it was not broken. It was the Shirriffs' job to protect the Shire from trespassers more than anything. There were a total of twelve in all of the Shire, three in each [[Farthings|Farthing]], and were distinguished from "civilians" by a feather worn in their caps. <br />
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The [[Mayor of Michel Delving]] was considered the First Shirriff.<br />
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The only time this number was any larger was from two circumstances. The first, less serious, was the "Special Constabulary" power, where [[hobbits]] were deputized into patrolling the borders, which were called [[Bounders]].<br />
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The second was when [[Saruman]] had infiltrated the Shire, and had taken control, with the help of footpads and shady characters like [[Bill Ferny]]. Saruman had increased the number to supress any revolting, and arrest anybody who broke the rules. They were assigned in companies such as the [[First Eastfarthing Troop]].<br />
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though that was not enough to prevent [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]], [[Samwise Gamgee|Sam]], [[Meriadoc Brandybuck|Merry]], [[Peregrin Took|Pippin]], and others from liberating the [[Shire-folk]].<br />
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Shirriff is an archaic rendition of "sheriff". Both mean "shire-reeve" ([[Old English]] ''scīrgerefa'')<br />
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[[Category:Organisations in the Shire]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Watch&diff=124334Watch2010-09-01T22:24:15Z<p>Aule the Smith: </p>
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<div>The '''Watch''' was responsible for maintaining the peace in [[the Shire]]. It consisted of the [[Shirriffs]], a police force of twelve hobbits responsible for 'Internal Work', and the [[Bounders]], a larger body that guarded the borders of the Shire. The head of the Watch was the [[First Shirriff]], a post attached to that of the [[Mayor of Michel Delving]].<br />
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==References==<br />
* {{FR|Prologue}}: ''Of the Ordering of the Shire''.<br />
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[[Category:Organisations in the Shire]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Bounders&diff=124333Bounders2010-09-01T22:24:08Z<p>Aule the Smith: </p>
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<div>The '''Bounders''' were responsible for policing the borders of [[the Shire]] and ensuring that outsiders behaved themselves. This was known as 'beating the bounds'. The Bounders was the larger of the two branches of the [[Watch]] (the other being the twelve [[Shirriffs]]).<br />
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The number of Bounders at any given time was not fixed but varied according to need. In the run up to the [[War of the Ring]]they were greatly increased as [[ruffians]] and spies of [[Isengard]] and [[Mordor]] began to enter [[Eriador]]. Unbeknownst to the Hobbits of the Shire this was the first sign that the troubles of the south would soon reach even their borders.<br />
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==References==<br />
* {{FR|Prologue}}: ''Of the Ordering of the Shire''.<br />
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[[Category:Organisations in the Shire]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Watch&diff=124332Watch2010-09-01T22:23:48Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>The '''Watch''' was responsible for maintaining the peace in [[the Shire]]. It consisted of the [[Shirriffs]], a police force of twelve hobbits responsible for 'Internal Work', and the [[Bounders]], a larger body that guarded the borders of the Shire. The head of the Watch was the [[First Shirriff]], a post attached to that of the [[Mayor of Michel Delving]].<br />
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==References==<br />
* {{FR|Prologue}}: ''Of the Ordering of the Shire''.<br />
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* [[Hobbitry-in-arms]]<br />
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[[Category:Organizations]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Hobbitry-in-arms&diff=124331Hobbitry-in-arms2010-09-01T22:23:36Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>The '''Hobbitry-in-arms''' was the [[wikipedia:militia|militia]] of [[the Shire]]. The captain of the Hobbitry-in-arms was the [[Thain]], who summoned it at a [[Shire-muster]] in times of emergency.<ref name="OrderingShire">{{FR|Prologue}}: ''Of the Ordering of the Shire''.</ref><br />
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By the end of the [[Third Age]] the existence of an armed hobbitry was largely a relic of harder times. Hobbits did not fight amongst themselves, and for many centuries they had been sheltered from the dangers of the outside world by the efforts of the [[Rangers of the North|Rangers]], of which they were largely unaware. The last battle to take place within the borders of the Shire before the [[War of the Ring]], and so presumably the last time the Hobbitry-in-arms was mobilised, was the [[Battle of Greenfields]] in {{TA|2747}} ([[Shire Reckoning|S.R.]] 1147). What store of weapons remained in the Shire were trophies hanging on walls or displayed in the [[Mathom-house]] at [[Michel Delving]].<ref name="ConcerningHobbits">{{FR|Prologue}}: ''Concerning Hobbits''.</ref><br />
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In {{TA|3019}} a hastily-assembled hobbitry under the command of [[Meriadoc Brandybuck]] ejected the [[Ruffians]] from the Shire in the [[Battle of Bywater]]. It is not clear whether this constituted an official mobilisation of the Hobbitry-in-arms, although the contingent from [[Tookland]] was raised by Thain [[Paladin Took II]] and led by his son and heir [[Peregrin Took]].<ref name="Scouring">{{RK|VI8}}.</ref><br />
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[[Category:Armies]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Mayor_of_the_Shire&diff=124328Mayor of the Shire2010-09-01T22:18:14Z<p>Aule the Smith: On second thoughts a soft redirect is better.</p>
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<div>The '''Mayor of the Shire''' was a common term for the official more properly known as the '''[[Mayor of Michel Delving]]'''.<br />
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* {{FR|Prologue}}: ''Of the Organisation of the Shire''.<br />
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[[Category:Hobbitish Titles]]</div>Aule the Smithhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Master_of_Buckland&diff=124327Master of Buckland2010-09-01T22:15:57Z<p>Aule the Smith: recat</p>
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<div>'''Master of Buckland''' was a hereditary title of the head of the [[Brandybuck Family|Brandybuck]] family, descended from [[Gorhendad Oldbuck]], who founded the march-land of [[Buckland]] and built [[Brandy Hall]].<br />
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The '''thain''' was an office of great respect in [[the Shire]].<br />
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==History==<br />
For nearly four hundred years after its foundation, the Shire had been part of the lands of [[Arthedain]], and under the rule of that land's King. Ultimately, Arthedain fell to the forces of [[Angmar]], and its last King, [[Arvedui]], was lost, leaving the [[Shire-hobbits]] without a ruler. They remedied this by choosing a new leader from among themselves, [[Bucca of the Marish]], who was given the title ''thain'', a word simply meaning "chief" in their dialect.<br />
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The Thain was chief of the [[Shire-moot]] and [[Hobbitry-at-arms]]. <br />
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Bucca and his descendants, a family known as the [[Oldbucks]], served as Shire-thain for twelve generations. The twelfth Thain, one [[Gorhendad Oldbuck]], left the Shire and crossed the River [[Brandywine]] to find [[Buckland]]. With his departure, the Thainship passed to a new line, the [[Took Family|Tooks]], and specifically to [[Isumbras Took I]]; thenceforth, the thain would be sometimes called simply "the Took".<br />
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From Isumbras I, the line of the Took Shire-thains continued unbroken to the time of the [[War of the Ring]] and beyond with Peregrin I when thainship became also a Councellor office of the [[Reunited Kingdom|North Kingdom]].<br />
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The last recorded Thain was his son, [[Faramir Took I]], the thirty-fourth to hold the title of Shire-thain. The fact that both he and his father [[Peregrin Took]] are recorded as the first of that name shows that there must have been more Thains after this time, and the office clearly lasted well into the [[Fourth Age]].<br />
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==Line of Thains==<br />
It is known that there were at least thirty-three Shire-thains, from Bucca, who became Thain in [[Third Age 1979]], to Faramir I, who took on the title in [[Fourth Age 63]], more than a thousand years later.<br />
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* '''I''' [[Bucca of the Marish]] (Thain from Third Age 1979) - The first Thain was given the title in 1979 (379 by the [[Shire-reckoning]]) in a time when the northern lands were recovering from a devastating war in which the old kingdom of Arthedain had come to an end. He was succeeded by Thains of the Oldbuck line. <br />
* '''II-XI''' Ten Thains of the Oldbuck line (Thains for about 300 years to [[Third Age 2340]]) - Bucca was followed by Thains whose names are not recorded, but who took the surname ''Oldbuck'' in honour of their ancestor. <br />
* '''XII''' [[Gorhendad Oldbuck]] (Thain to [[Third Age 2340]]) - The line of the Oldbucks came to an end with Gorhendad, who crossed the River Brandywine and founded Buckland, changing his name to Brandybuck. The Thainship passed from him to the Took family, and Gorhendad was succeeded by the first Thain of the Took line. <br />
* '''XIII''' [[Isumbras Took I|Isumbras I]] (Thain from [[Third Age 2340]]) - The thirteenth Thain in line from Bucca, and the first of the Took line. Isumbras' descendants would hold the Thainship for the rest of the recorded history of the Shire. <br />
* '''XIV-XXI''' Eight Thains of the Took line (Thains for about two hundred years to [[Third Age 2683]]) - The eight Tooks to hold the Thainship after Isumbras I are nowhere named, but we can infer some of their identities from the names of later holders of the office. Among these eight must have been [[Isengrim I]], [[Ferumbras I]], [[Paladin I]] and [[Isumbras II]], but no records of their Thainships are known. <br />
* '''XXII''' [[Isengrim Took II|Isengrim II]] (Thain for 39 years to [[Third Age 2722]]) - The twenty-second Thain, and tenth of the Took line. He began the excavation of Great Smials, which would become the seat of the Thains in the Tookland. He became Thain soon after the first pipe-weed was introduced into the Shire by Tobold Hornblower. He was succeeded by his son. <br />
* '''XXIII''' [[Isumbras Took III|Isumbras III]] (Thain for 32 years to [[Third Age 2759]]) - His younger son was [[Bandobras Took]], the famous "Bullroarer". In Isumbras' time the Shire was greatly troubled by Orcs, and Bandobras defeated a band of them at the [[Battle of Greenfields]] during his Thainship. Bandobras, though, was Isumbras' younger son - the Thainship passed instead to his older brother. <br />
* '''XXIV''' [[Ferumbras Took II|Ferumbras II]] (Thain for 42 years to [[Third Age 2801]]) - He was succeeded by his son. <br />
* '''XXV''' [[Fortinbras Took I|Fortinbras I]] (Thain for 47 years to [[Third Age 2848]]) - At the beginning of his Thainship, the Shire would have seen much activity as Dwarves of Durin's Folk travelled westward to settle in the Blue Mountains. He was succeeded by his son. <br />
* '''XXVI''' [[Gerontius Took|Gerontius]] (Thain for 72 years to [[Third Age 2920]]) - The famous Old Took, who held the office of Thain for a total of seventy-two of his one hundred and thirty years, and had a total of twelve children. During his Thainship, the Shire suffered the dreadful privations of the Fell Winter, and invasions of White Wolves. He was succeeded by the eldest of his many sons. <br />
* '''XXVII''' [[Isengrim Took III|Isengrim III]] (Thain for 10 years to [[Third Age 2930]]) - Due to the Old Took's many years in office, his eldest son Isengrim was no less than eighty-eight years old when he inherited the Thainship. He held it for just ten years and died without leaving an heir. He was succeeded by his younger brother. <br />
* '''XXVIII''' [[Isumbras Took IV|Isumbras IV]] (Thain for 9 years to [[Third Age 2939]]) - Like his brother Isengrim, Isumbras came old to the Thainship, being ninety-two when he took office. After his short time as the Shire-thain, he was succeeded by his son. <br />
* '''XXIX''' [[Fortinbras Took II|Fortinbras II]] (Thain for 41 years to [[Third Age 2980]]) - Early in his time as Thain there was a sensation in Hobbiton, due to the mysterious disappearance into the Wild - and later reappearance - of one Bilbo Baggins of Bag End. Fortinbras was succeeded by his son. <br />
* '''XXX''' [[Ferumbras Took III|Ferumbras III]] (Thain for 35 years to [[Third Age 3015]]) - He was Thain at the time of Bilbo Baggins' famous farewell feast and Birthday Party, which indeed he attended. He never married, and so left no heir. The descent of the Thainship passed to the line of Gerontius' fourth son Hildigrim, and specifically to Hildigrim's grandson. <br />
* '''XXXI''' [[Paladin Took II|Paladin II]] (Thain for 19 years to [[Fourth Age 13]]) - Born in the time that his great uncle Isumbras IV was Thain, Paladin took up a farming life at Whitwell in the Tookland. He was Thain during the War of the Ring, and held the Tookland against the ruffians who invaded the Shire at that time. He was succeeded by his fourth child, but eldest son. <br />
* '''XXXII''' [[Peregrin Took|Peregrin I]] (Thain for 50 years to [[Fourth Age 63]]) - Peregrin Took of the Fellowship of the Ring inherited the Thainship some thirteen years after his return from adventuring in the south, and held the title into his old age, serving also as Counselor of the North Kingdom. At the age of ninety-four, he gave up the office and rode away once again into the countries of the south with his friend Meriadoc Brandybuck; they were never seen in the Shire again. He was succeeded by his son. <br />
* '''XXXIII''' [[Faramir Took I|Faramir I]] (Thain from Fourth Age 63) - Named for [[Faramir|Faramir]] the [[Prince of Ithilien]], little is known of Thain Faramir, except that he married [[Samwise Gamgee|Samwise Gamgee]]'s daughter Goldilocks. Doubtless he was succeeded by further generations of Shire-thains, but of them we have no record.<br />
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==Etymology==<br />
Thain is a [[Hobbitish]], alternative (invented by Tolkien) spelling of the [[wikipedia:Early Modern English|Early Modern English]] word ''[[wikipedia:Thegn|thane]]''. Both words derive from [[Old English]] ''þegn''. <br />
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Thane in Anglo-Saxon England is a lord holding lands from the king in his own jurisdiction, much like the thain of the Hobbits who kept the Shire instead of the King of Arnor. The title of thane was more or less equivalent to a baron.<br />
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<div>The '''Postmaster''' of [[the Shire]] was the head of the [[Messenger Service]]. The office was attached to the [[Mayor of Michel Delving|Mayoralty of Michel Delving]].<br />
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* {{FR|Prologue}}: ''Of the Ordering of the Shire''.<br />
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'''Warden of Westmarch''' was a title granted by [[Thain]] [[Peregrin Took|Peregrin I]], to [[Fastred of Greenholm]] in [[Fourth Age 35]].<br />
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The title was hereditary, passed by Fastred to his son [[Elfstan Fairbairn]], and associated from then on with the [[Fairbairn Family|Fairbairns of the Towers]]. They held the heirloom of the [[Red Book]].<br />
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<div>The '''Mayor of Michel Delving''' was the elected leader of [[Michel Delving]], the ''de facto'' capital of [[the Shire]]. Though the responsibilities Mayoralty itself amounted to little more than presiding at banquets, the office was attached to that of [[Postmaster]] and [[First Shirriff]] and so by the end of the [[Third Age]] had surpassed the [[Thain|Thainship]] as the most important official position in the shire, so much so that its occupant was commonly known as the '''Mayor of the Shire'''.<ref name="OrderingShire">{{FR|Prologue}}: ''Of the Ordering of the Shire''.</ref><br />
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The Mayor was chosen by the [[hobbits]] of the Shire every seven years at [[Lithe]], during the [[Free Fair]] on the [[White Downs]].<ref name="OrderingShire" /><br />
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In {{FoA|13}} ([[Shire Reckoning|S.R.]] 1434) the Mayor of Michel Delving, along with the Thain and the [[Master of Buckland]], was made a Counsellor of the newly re-established [[Arnor|North-kingdom]] by [[High King of the Dúnedain|King]] [[Aragorn|Elessar]].<ref name="AppBLater">{{App|B5}}.</ref><br />
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[[Will Whitfoot]] was the Mayor of Michel Delving during the War of the Ring. An old and fat hobbit, he was largely regarded as a harmless figure of fun<ref>{{FR|I10}}.</ref> but showed his mettle when in {{TA|3019}} he was one of the few hobbits that protested [[Lotho Sackville-Baggins|Lotho Sackville-Baggins']] takeover of the Shire on behalf of [[Saruman]], and in return was imprisoned in the [[Lockholes]] by Lotho's [[Ruffians]].<ref name="Scouring">{{RK|VI8}}.</ref> He was released following the [[Scouring of the Shire]], and [[Frodo Baggins]] acted as his Deputy until he had recovered.<ref name="GreyHavens">{{RK|VI9}}.</ref><br />
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After Whitfoot, [[Samwise Gamgee]] served an unprecedented seven consecutive terms as Mayor, starting in {{FoA|6}} and ending in {{FoA|55}} ([[Shire Reckoning|S.R.]] 1427&ndash;1476).<ref name="AppBLater" /><br />
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<div>The '''First Shirriff''' of [[the Shire]] was the head of the [[Watch]]. The office was attached to the [[Mayor of Michel Delving|Mayoralty of Michel Delving]].<ref name="Ordering">{{FR|Prologue}}: ''Of the Ordering of the Shire''.</ref><br />
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When [[Lotho Sackville-Baggins]] briefly seized control of the Shire during the [[War of the Ring]] he called himself the [[Chief Shirriff]].<ref name="Scouring">{{RK|VI8}}.</ref><br />
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* [[Postmaster]]<br />
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<div>'''Chief Shirriff''' or simply '''Chief''' was the title [[Lotho Sackville-Baggins]] used when he briefly took control of [[the Shire]] as [[Saruman|Saruman's]] puppet during the [[War of the Ring]].<br />
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==References==<br />
* {{RK|VI8}}.<br />
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* [[First Shirriff]]<br />
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<div>'''Thistle Brook''' was a stream of the [[Eastfarthing]] of the [[Shire]]. It flowed southeast round [[Woody End]] and through the village of [[Willowbottom]] before its waters emptied into the River [[Shirebourn]].<br />
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<div>'''The Water''' was a tributary of the River [[Brandywine]] that rose in the [[Westfarthing]] of the [[Shire]], and flowed eastward to meet the Brandywine just north of the [[Brandywine Bridge]]. [[Hobbiton]] and [[Bywater]] both stood on this river.<br />
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The naming of the Water may be a parody of some sorts of Celtic hydronyms that mean simply "river" or "water."<ref>[[Mark T. Hooker]], ''[[A Tolkienian Mathomium]]'', pp. 65-68.</ref><br />
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<div>'''The Stock-brook''' was a brook of the [[Shire]]'s [[Eastfarthing]], and a minor tributary of the River [[Brandywine]]. It rose in the forested hills above [[Woody End]], and from there flowed eastwards and a little northwards out into the fields of the Marish. It passed through the southern end of the village of [[Stock]], from which it took its name, before emptying into the Brandywine a few miles north of [[Bucklebury Ferry]].<br />
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<div>The '''Shirebourn''' is a lesser river of [[the Shire]]'s [[Eastfarthing]]. Its source was in the uplands of the [[Green Hill Country]], from where it flowed south and then southeast. At [[Willowbottom]], it met the [[Thistle Brook]], and then flowed eastwards until the Shirebourn itself met the [[Brandywine]].<br />
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The Shirebourn flowed into the Brandywine beneath [[Deephallow]], and at its mouth formed the boggy region known as the [[Overbourn Marshes]], opposite the southern end of the [[High Hay]].<br />
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According to ''[[Nomenclature]]'', ''Shirebourn'' means "Bright-stream". However, in most translations, it is translated "River of the Shire" instead. <br />
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The '''Baranduin''' was a river in [[Eriador]]. To the [[Hobbits]] of [[the Shire]], the '''Brandywine''' (as they called it) was the boundary between the known and unknown, and even those who lived in [[Buckland]] on the immediate opposite shore were considered "peculiar".<br />
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Flowing out of [[Lake Evendim]] in northern [[Eriador]], the river flowed eastward for about 60 miles before turning generally southward; after about another 120 miles it flowed through the easternmost reaches of the Shire, forming that land's eastern border, except for [[Buckland]], which lies east of it. Its only major crossings in the Shire are the [[Brandywine Bridge]] (originally ''Bridge of Stonebows'') on the [[East Road]] and the [[Bucklebury Ferry]].<br />
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Skirting the [[Old Forest]] to the south, the river then looped south-westward, crossing an old road at [[Sarn Ford]] and flowed to the north of the depopulated region of [[Minhiriath]] before flowing into the [[Belegaer|Sea]] to the north of the forested region of [[Eryn Vorn]].<br />
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==History==<br />
[[Primula Brandybuck|Primula]] and [[Drogo Baggins]], parents of [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]], were lost along the river in a boating accident in [[Third Age 2980|T.A. 2980]]. <br />
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No tributares of the Baranduin are described except those near or in the Shire:<br />
* [[The Water]] - central Shire, from the northwest<br />
* [[The Stock-brook]] - arises in the Woody End<br />
* River [[Shirebourn]] - rises in Green-Hill country, tributary is Thistle Brook<br />
* [[Withywindle]] - from the Old Forest<br />
* River [[Norbourn]] - in the [[Farthings|Northfarthing]]<br />
There is a [[Girdley Island]] in the river just above the Brandywine Bridge.<br />
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==Etymology==<br />
The name ''Baranduin'' was [[Sindarin]] for "golden-brown river", from ''[[baran]]'' and ''[[duin]]''. The [[Hobbits]] of the Shire originally gave it the punning name ''Branda-nîn'', meaning "border water" in original Hobbitish [[Westron]]. This was later punned again as ''Bralda-hîm'' meaning "heady ale" (referring to the colour of its water), which Tolkien renders into English as ''Brandywine'', a word which both resembles the original Elvish name, and provides the Hobbitish meaning adequately.<br />
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