SHIRE

Shire

The Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, described in The Lord of the Rings and other works. The Shire refers to an area settled exclusively by Hobbits and largely removed from the goings-on in the rest of Middle-earth. It is located in the northwest of the continent, in the large region of Eriador and the Kingdom of Arnor. Its name in Westron was Sûza "Shire" or Sûzat "The Shire". Its name in Sindarin was i Drann.

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shire

Noun

  1. Former administrative area of Britain; a county.
    Yorkshire is the largest shire in England.
  2. The general area in which a person lives, used in the context of travel within the UK:
    "When are you coming back to the shire?"
  3. A rural or outer suburban local government area of Australia.
  4. A shire horse


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