IN THE SHIRE-RECKONING by Diane Finnis-Robb
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Summary:
-This stand alone novel was completed for Hobbit Day 2026. It is a multi-generational novel spanning a period of time from the formation of the Shire to the Great Plague in Year Thirty-six and focuses on the origins of an old feud between the Bucks and the Tooks.
Canon Source: History of Middle-earth
Major Characters: Witch-king of Angmar
Major Relationships:
Genre: General
Challenges:
Rating: General
Warnings: Character Death
Chapters: 34 Word Count: 265, 560 Posted on Updated on This fanwork is a work in progress.
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Table of Contents
-Pagination in the table of contents is not consistent with online reading but is intended to give readers a sense of the length of each section
Part I
The Time Before
-In Which we Tell of the Discovery and Establishment of the Shire and Meet some of the Founding “Townfathers"; Revealing their Dreams and Exhibiting their Practicality while also Witnessing some of the Differences Which Would Come to Divide Them
Interlude:
A Brief Record of Those Early Years
-In Which some Significant History is Recounted Concerning the Shire’s Development, the Beginnings of Its Government and the Character of Its People whilst Gondolpho Oldbuck was Away
Part Two:
The Time After
-In Which the First Generation Born in the Shire Begins to Envision a Future of Their Own Making and the Return of the Old Buck Alters that Vision.
Part III
The Time of Conclusion
-In Which many Accounts are Settled and, for Good and for Bad, the Future of the Shire is Shaped.
A Brief Record of The Last Generation of Pioneers
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