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Dates
Founded no earlier than III 16011 (year 1 by the Shire-reckoning): survived into the Fourth Age
Location
In the Westfarthing of the Shire, among the western slopes of the Green Hills
Race
Hobbits
Culture
Shire-hobbits
Family
Associated with the Tooks
Meaning
Never given explicitly, but almost certainly 'Took town'

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  • Updated 17 March 2007
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Tuckborough

The township beneath Great Smials

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An old and important settlement in the Westfarthing of the Shire. It was the location of Great Smials, the ancestral seat of the Took clan, the hereditary Thains of the Shire.


Notes

1

It is known that Tuckborough was one of the oldest settlements of the Shire-hobbits, though whether it dated all the way back to the Shire's foundation is open to question.

See also...

Great Smials, Green Hill Country, Green Hills, Paladin Took II, The Yale, Took Family, Tookbank, Tookland, Westfarthing of the Shire, Whitwell

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