I'd like to add, that if you read the books, the Dunedain (the Rangers) all help guard The Shire and other Hobbit lands, and the Hobbits never knew about it. They kept the nasties out. Part of this was a stewardship, as they saw the hobbits as a young race... much alikened to children. They had not the means to affectively fight. There were no wars in Hobbit history.
This changed with the ring.
After the flooding of Isengard, Sauraman actually goes to the Shire, captures it, and with help of some relations of Frodo and Bilbo (the Sacksville-Baggins who have been lusting after Bag End) captures the Shire. The Hobbits don't fight back (again never been to war, etc.) And by the time Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin return to the Shire after seeing Aragorn crowned, they find the envionmental peace and beauty of their home gone. It's a ravaged industrial wasteland.
But these four hobbits, aren't like most, they've been to war and fought great things, and they rally the arms, and defeat Sauruaman once and for all. With the aid of more elven gifts gifted to them on their way home (they get horns which will have people answer their call). In the first film when Frodo has the vision in Galadriel's mirror, that vision is a nod by Peter Jackson to this final section of the story, that they knew they wouldn't be able to tell in the films.
In this you see a great theme of Tolkien environment GOOD, industrialization BAD.
Sam restores the shire, through use of the gift of earth that Galadriel had gifted him. Aragon, makes the Shire a protected enclave in his kingdom, forbidden fullsized men from enterting into the shire.
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Date: 2006-12-15 08:48 pm (UTC)This changed with the ring.
After the flooding of Isengard, Sauraman actually goes to the Shire, captures it, and with help of some relations of Frodo and Bilbo (the Sacksville-Baggins who have been lusting after Bag End) captures the Shire. The Hobbits don't fight back (again never been to war, etc.) And by the time Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin return to the Shire after seeing Aragorn crowned, they find the envionmental peace and beauty of their home gone. It's a ravaged industrial wasteland.
But these four hobbits, aren't like most, they've been to war and fought great things, and they rally the arms, and defeat Sauruaman once and for all. With the aid of more elven gifts gifted to them on their way home (they get horns which will have people answer their call). In the first film when Frodo has the vision in Galadriel's mirror, that vision is a nod by Peter Jackson to this final section of the story, that they knew they wouldn't be able to tell in the films.
In this you see a great theme of Tolkien environment GOOD, industrialization BAD.
Sam restores the shire, through use of the gift of earth that Galadriel had gifted him. Aragon, makes the Shire a protected enclave in his kingdom, forbidden fullsized men from enterting into the shire.