ridddermark:middle earth aesthetics → the shirethe land was rich and kindly, and though it
ridddermark:middle earth aesthetics → the shirethe land was rich and kindly, and though it had been long deserted when they entered it, it had before been well tilled, and there the king had once had many farms, cornlands, vineyards, and woods. forty leagues it stretched from the far downs to the brandywine bridge, and fifty from the northern moor to the marshes in the south. the hobbits named it the shire, as the region of the authority of their thain, and there in that pleasant corner of the world they plied their well-ordered business of living, and they heeded less and less the world outside where dark things moved, until they came to think that peace and plenty were the rule in middle-earth and the right of all sensible folk. -- source link
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