The hobbits were granted official permission from King Argeleb II at Norbury to settle in the Shire, which had become depopulated in the Great Plague, and was seen as the King's hunting grounds. The Shire was a part of Arthedain and as such a part of Arnor. It has been speculated that the hobbits had originally moved west to escape the evils of Mirkwood, and the shadow of Dol Guldur.īag End and the land beyond in the Third Age, illustrated by David Wenzel ( external link) The hobbits (who originally lived in the Vales of Anduin) had migrated west over the Misty Mountains in the centuries before, and lived in Dunland and parts of the depopulated Arnor splinter-realms Cardolan and Rhudaur before coming to the Shire. The Shire was settled by hobbits in the year TA 1601 (Year 1 in Shire Reckoning).
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