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Dates
Occupied by Hobbits after the foundation of the Shire in III 1601 (year 1 by the Shire-reckoning)
Location
Running west to east through the Shire, from the Tookland to Woody End
Race
Culture
Family
The western end of the hills ran through the folkland of the Took family
Settlements
Source
The river Shirebourn, Stock-brook and Thistle Brook all had their sources in the eastern Green Hills
Other names
Sometimes known simply as the Green Hills; the name is sometimes spelt with a hyphen as 'Green-Hill Country'1
Note
Not to be confused with the Green Hills of Gondor, Pinnath Gelin, which lay far to the south

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Green Hill Country

The country between the Tookland and Woody End

Map of the Green Hills of the Shire

A patch of country in the Shire, marked out by the Green Hills that ran west to east through three of the Shire's four farthings.

The western feet of the Green Hills were in the Westfarthing, in the lands of the Tooks. From Tuckborough, a road ran eastwards through the Green Hill Country, and it was this that Frodo, Sam and Pippin briefly used in their journey from Bag End.

From their beginnings in the Westfarthing, the Hills cut through the northern corner of the Southfarthing, where the village of Pincup lay on their southern slopes. Finally, they passed through the border into the Eastfarthing, where they became densely wooded, and reached their eastern end at the appropriately named Woody End.


Notes

1

Specifically, the hyphenated form 'Green-Hill Country' appears on the map of the Shire accompanying The Lord of the Rings, but Tolkien preferred to spell the name without a hyphen, and the unhyphenated 'Green Hill Country' is used throughout the text.

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  • This entry is complete

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