The Shire by the Great East Road

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The Shire by the Great East Road is a tranquil, rural region of Middle-earth inhabited by hobbits, serving as the pastoral homeland of key characters in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional location
hobbit homeland
region of Middle-earth
appearsInWork The Fellowship of the Ring NERFINISHED
The Hobbit NERFINISHED
The Lord of the Rings NERFINISHED
The Return of the King NERFINISHED
The Two Towers NERFINISHED
createdBy J. R. R. Tolkien NERFINISHED
firstPublicationContext The Hobbit (1937) NERFINISHED
governedBy Master of Buckland NERFINISHED
Mayor of Michel Delving
Thain of the Shire NERFINISHED
hasCharacteristic pastoral
rural
tranquil
hasClimate temperate
hasEconomicActivity farming
gardening
pipe-weed cultivation
hasSubdivision Buckland NERFINISHED
Bywater NERFINISHED
Hobbiton NERFINISHED
Michel Delving NERFINISHED
homeOfFictionalCharacter Bilbo Baggins NERFINISHED
Frodo Baggins NERFINISHED
Meriadoc Brandybuck NERFINISHED
Peregrin Took NERFINISHED
Samwise Gamgee NERFINISHED
inhabitedBy Hobbits NERFINISHED
inspiredBy English countryside
knownFor hobbit-holes
peaceful life
simple rural customs
languageSpoken Westron NERFINISHED
laterElaboratedIn The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955) NERFINISHED
locatedEastOf The Far Downs NERFINISHED
The Tower Hills NERFINISHED
locatedInFictionalUniverse Middle-earth NERFINISHED
locatedInRegion Eriador NERFINISHED
locatedNorthOf White Downs NERFINISHED
locatedWestOf Bree NERFINISHED
Bree-land NERFINISHED
partOf The Shire NERFINISHED
playsRoleIn beginning of the quest of the Ring
ending of the War of the Ring
primaryRace Hobbits NERFINISHED
traversedBy Great East Road NERFINISHED

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The Grey Havens connectedTo The Shire by the Great East Road