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According to the prologue of The Lord of the Rings: "Their earliest tales seem to glimpse a time when they dwelt in the upper vales of Anduin, between the eaves of Greenwood the Great and the Misty Mountains. Why they later undertook the hard and perilous crossing of the mountains into Eriador is no longer certain. Their own accounts speak of the multiplying of Men in the land, and of a shadow that fell on the forest, so that it became darkened and its new name was Mirkwood."

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They got permission from the King of Arnor, hundreds of years before the beginning of the Fellowship of the Ring and no hobbit alive at the time of the story was alive back then. It is only recorded in tales.

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Bilbo was his uncle.

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Q: How did the hobbits come to settle the Shire in The Fellowship of the Ring?
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What is the shire in The Fellowship of the Ring?

The Shire is the home of the hobbits, the most famous of them is Sam and of course Frodo.


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How does the first part of The Fellowship of the Ring begin in the lord of the rings?

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