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the shire
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Former administrative area of Britain; a county.
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The Shire Highlands, a plateau region to the east of the Shire River (Chiradzulu district).
And the Shire went up as one.
Inside the Shire Hall were stalls selling jewellery and hardware.
The violence has not, thankfully, revisited the shire.
Leaving my safe little job was like leaving the shire".
The Shire is America and the dragon is China.
The "Shire Reeve" was originally responsible to the king for the maintenance of law and order and collection of taxes, within the shire or county.
In London, the south-east and many of the shire counties it was much higher.
There's a reason Tolkien begins both novels by getting his hobbit protagonists out of the Shire.
6. Bag End Home of Bungo, Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, in Hobbiton, the Shire, Middle-earth.
The shire was first mentioned as a political unit in 1010.
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