Timeline Event
Settlement of the Shire
Event Type: Cultural/Social
Age: 3rd Age - The Kings
Year: 1601
Description:
1601
Many Periannath migrate from Bree, and are granted land beyond Baranduin by Argeleb II.
circa 1630
They are joined by Stoors coming up from Dunland. ...
The Return of the King, LoTR Appendix B, The Tale of Years: Later Events Concerning the Members of the Fellowship of the Ring
For it was in the one thousand six hundred and first year of the Third Age that the Fallohide brothers, Marcho and Blanco, set out from Bree; and having obtained permission from the high king at Fornost, they crossed the brown river Baranduin with a great following of Hobbits. They passed over the Bridge of Stonebows, that had been built in the days of the power of the North Kingdom and they took all the land beyond to dwell in, between the river and the Far Downs. All that was demanded of them was that they should keep the Great Bridge in repair, and all other bridges and roads, speed the king's messengers, and acknowledge his lordship.
Thus began the Shire-reckoning, for the year of the crossing of the Brandywine (as the Hobbits turned the name) became Year One of the Shire, and all later dates were reckoned from it. ... The land was rich and kindly, and though it had long been deserted when they entered it, it had before been well tilled, and there the king had once had many farms, cornlands, vineyards, and woods.
The Fellowship of the Ring, LoTR Prologue, Concerning Hobbits
Contributors:
Lyllyn 11.15.03
added quote: Elena Tiriel 31Oct05
