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The Shire is an inland area settled exclusively by hobbits, the Shire-folk, largely sheltered from the goings-on in the rest of Middle-earth. It is in the northwest of the continent, in the region of Eriador and the Kingdom of Arnor. The Shire is the scene of action at the beginning and end of Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
The Hobbiton Movie Set [1] is a significant location used for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and The Hobbit film trilogy, serving as a stand-in for the town of Hobbiton in the Shire in both trilogies.
Three Shire Heads bridge, where three shires in England (Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire) meet.. Shire (/ ʃ aɪər /, also / ʃ ɪər /) is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking countries.
Bag End, Hobbiton, the comfortable underground dwelling of Bilbo and later Frodo Baggins, constructed for Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film series. Tolkien's painting The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water, watercolour, 1938 [1] showing its ideal position near the top of the Hill at Hobbiton, with less-favoured Hobbit-holes lower down.
West River and the Shire of Ravensthorpe are located on the traditional land of the Wudjari people of the Noongar nation. [4] [5] The Old Ongerup Road in West River is listed on the shire's heritage register, dating back to the late 1860s. [6]
Bree is a fictional village in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, east of the Shire.Bree-land, which contains Bree and a few other villages, is the only place where Hobbits and Men lived side by side.
The Shire site is located near a lake that is thought to have been formed during the Holocene, or present epoch. The lake is surrounded by forested areas with large trees used for timber. The lake is surrounded by forested areas with large trees used for timber.
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