Release the plot bunnies!!

[cairistiona7]

Or, A Very Interesting Article On The Migration of Hobbits....

I don't know how many of you follow Michael Martinez' blog, Middle-earth and JRR Tolkien Blog, but he always writes very interesting articles. Back in December, he posted this one, Charting The Shire Lines.I just discovered the post yesterday and haven't read the entire thing yet, in

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[cairistiona7]

but there was remark about how the hobbits, having moved in to what became the Shire, did in fact send bowmen to join men and elves against Angmar.

I know I must have read that somewhere, too, because it does ring all kinds of bells. What a fascinating fic that would be to write. *jots down in my Ideas File*

Now picturing such mighty if diminutive archers may incite laughter, but it was their due and just service to the then King.

I love the imagery. And I'm also wondering now how many Shire hobbitlings might have played "Archer against Angmar" on the schoolground. *g*

I imagine between war and famine and those terrible winters they suffered horribly. But they are, much like the Edain of the North, a hearty people. :)

Life would have been so dreadful during that period. I can't really wrap my head around it sometimes. And that history is something that the Dunedain know all too well and never forgot--and strengthens their resolve against the darkness growing in Mordor.

Every time I start studying it, it amazes me all over again the depth of detail Tolkien gave his world's history and how it all works together and makes so much sense!

[mrowe]

I know I must have read that somewhere, too, because it does ring all kinds of bells.

It is in the Prologue to LotR - in the paragraph that starts "Thus began the Shire-reckoning"

*bats away plotbunnies*

[cairistiona7]

Ah, thank you. I confess I often skip that prologue when I read LOTR. Shameful, I know, but I'm always in such a hurry to get to Chapterd 9 & 10....