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“Asked to design a fitting repository for a client’s valuable collection of J.R.R. Tolkien manuscripts and artifacts, architect Peter Archer went to the source—the fantasy novels that describe the abodes of the diminutive Hobbits.”
From an article by Debra Judge Silber. Check it out right here!
“On one point, however, the Dwarves were always “rigidly secretive… For reasons which neither Elves nor Men ever fully understood they would not reveal any personal names to people of other kin, nor later when they had acquired the arts of writing would allow them ever to be carved or written. They therefore took names by which they could be known to their allies in Mannish forms.” (PM:304) Appendix F in LotR confirms this: “Their own secret and ‘inner’ names, their true names, the Dwarves have never revealed to any one of alien race. Not even on their tombs do they inscribe them.” Hence the names Balin and Fundin, that occur in a Khuzdul context on the slab over Balin’s tomb, are not themselves Khuzdul. They are Mannish names, merely the substitute names Balin and his father Fundin used when non-dwarves were present.”
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“The lands beyond Baranduin had plenty of hills. There were the Green Hills, the White Downs, and the Far Downs, smaller than the great hills of the east but still sufficient to house many Hobbit communities. Encouraging the Hobbits to settle the western lands would have reduced pressure on the Men living north of Bree, if their own numbers were increasing.” –from an interesting article by Michael Martinez.
Read the article at the author’s website.
“There were no towns, not even villages. All the former communities were gone. Tharbad, the last town beyond Bree had vanished in floods in 2912, more than 100 years before the War of the Ring. The Shire itself continued to flourish and grow, although there were setbacks during the centuries. After the Brandybuck migration in 2340 there would have been the Long Winter and the Days of Dearth in 2758-60, and the Fell Winter in 2911. So every 300-350 years or so the Hobbit populations seem to have been reduced by famine, war, or plague. It was enough to prevent them from spreading across Eriador, but insufficient to reduce them to a haggard, struggling people.”
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