The Farthings and Beyond - Shire Free RP
“I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.”
The Fellowship of the Ring
Northfarthing
Bindbole Wood - a small wood in the Northfarthing
Hardbottle - a settlement in the stony north of the Shire; home of the Bracegirdles
Long Cleeve - a town in the Northfarthing; home of the North-Tooks
The North Moors - an area along the northern border of the Shire; the one place in the Shire for regular heavy snowfalls
Eastfarthing
Frogmorton - a village on the East Road between the Three-Farthing Stone and the Brandywine Bridge. Notable for its inn, the Floating Log
Willowbottom - a village near the Woody End, on the banks of the Thistle Brook stream
The Brandywine - a river; the eastern border of the Shire
The Marish - a boggy and fertile farmland region
The Woody End - an upland wooded region between Green Hill Country and the Marish
Southfarthing
Longbottom - home of the Hornblower clan, also origin of Longbottom Leaf
Pincup - a small village in the northern corner of the Southfarthing
Green Hill Country - a patch of country in the Shire, marked out by the Green Hills
Westfarthing
Bywater - just over the Water from Hobbiton, location of the Green Dragon
Hobbiton - the quintessential Hobbit village, home of the Bagginses
Michel Delving - the chief town of the Shire, located in the White Downs
Tuckborough - location of the Great Smials, seat of the Tooks and Thain of the Shire
Far Downs - former western border of the Shire
Overhill - a small town north of Hobbiton and the Hill
The Water - the principal river of the Shire
Outside the Shire
Buckland - ancestral seat of the Brandybucks, between the Old Forest and the Brandywine
Westmarch - land that lay between the Far Downs and the Tower Hills, gifted by King Elessar
The Tower Hills - a range of hills at the west end of Eriador, west of the White Downs, location of three elven towers
The Old Forest - a small forested area to the east of the Shire; the remnants of the vast forests which covered Eriador before the Second Age. Hobbits believed the forest to be somehow awake and hostile
The Barrow Downs - a series of low hills east of the Shire, behind the Old Forest, and south-west of the village of Bree. Many of the hills were crowned with megaliths and barrows
Rules:
Read and enjoy other people’s hard work but respect their privacy (go to the RP Request Form if you would like to join an existing story or start a new story
All races are welcome, timeline is whatever you want it to be for your story
Keep any OOC comments to the Michel Delving Mathom-House
Refrain from using overly bright colors or potentially incur the wrath of the TRs
The above list of locations is by no means a complete list, feel free to use other locations or simply make your own
Anyone can use any canon characters in their stories, there is no ownership in this thread
We are all adults here and can decide for ourselves the stories we want to read so rather than dictate what can and cannot be written in this thread, we will ask that any CW (at the discretion of the writer) be placed at the top of the post
No excessive images and not gifs whatsoever