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| Shire: Beginnings by Lindelea | 3 Review(s) |
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| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 29 on 2/8/2025 |
| It’s good that Gandalf and the Elves are keeping an eye on things - I don’t trust the Men if Rhuduar. Home is a wonderful thing! And I’m so glad the Harfoots (Harfeet? ;-) are anxious to welcome them! Author Reply: "Home" is such a lovely word... I seem to remember that this is where the idea began of keeping a watch on the Shire and the Bree-land. Before Cardolan and Arthedain fell, probably Gandalf mostly took care of things (and maybe Rivendell Elves?). And then later, the Dúnedain took on the role of the Watchers, perhaps not knowing the deeper reason why but faithful anyhow. | |
| Nienor Niniel | Reviewed Chapter: 29 on 7/30/2006 |
| I forgot to mention before: I think it is a fantastic idea that there is a foreshadowing of the role the hobbits have to play much later (at least from their point of view). Really great! Nienor Author Reply: Thank you! I'm glad it's plausible! | |
| Inkling | Reviewed Chapter: 29 on 2/20/2005 |
| Ah, the Stoors! I was wondering if they would turn up. This is very well researched, Lin! I wonder about their crossing, and that of the Harfoots a century earlier…whether they too were pursued, or whether the Fallohides were singled out for the Dark Power’s attention… Author Reply: I don't know if JRRT said why the other two groups made the crossing, though the coming of the Harfoots to Eriador is mentioned in the same time frame as the shadow falling on the Greenwood in the Tale of Years. In general, JRRT says: Their earliest tales seem to glimpse a time when they dwelt in the upper vales of Anduin, between the eaves of Greenwood the Great and the Misty Mountains. Why they later undertook the hard and perilous crossing of the mountains into Eriador is no longer certain. Their own accounts speak of the multiplying of Men in the land, and of a shadow that fell on the forest, so that it became darkened and its new name was Mirkwood. He also mentions that hobbits divided into the three groups (Harfoots, Fallohides, and Stoors) before the crossing of the mountains, and that the Harfoots interacted a lot with the Dwarves and lived in the foothills of the mountains for a long time. While the Harfoots are described as the commonest type of hobbit, the Fallohides are said to be natural leaders or chieftains, even amongst the Harfoots and Stoors, and a strong influence on the Tooks and Brandybucks who came later. Considering the family trees of Frodo, Pippin, and Merry, it made sense for the Enemy to target the Fallohides above all the three types of hobbits (if the Enemy did so, that is). As for Samwise... he has a bit of Fallohide in him, according to my reckoning, as I have imagined Beech (who married a Harfoot) as his ancestor. | |