The Shire

Tahitoa the hunter spent many weeks on the road, passing through a region they called the Trollshaw, with a rather noisy and rude caravan of dwarves heading west.  As they were coming out of the foothills, they passed  some elves camps and the dwarves became even more outspoken in their strange language, using words that Tahi did not know, and was to scared to ask about, though he was quite sure such words were directed to the elves.

Remember a day when the sun shone so bright?
It flowed through the windows, all lovely and light
And lit up the room with its soft golden rays
Do you remember that day?

And can you recall all the birds in the trees?
All singing out softly their sweet melodies
And gentle the buzzing of bees all around
Can you recall all these sounds?

  Bounder Brock Foxburr and his wife Lily were in the kitchen in their small hobbit hole in the town of Scary. Brock was looking anxiously out of the window, pacing around a little, then peering out again, and Lily was getting flustered and annoyed at her husbands wandering.

 "Sit down," she ordered "You're doing no good wandering about my kitchen, and your getting in my way!" Brock smiled apologetically and dragged a small chair to the window, and sat peering up the lane. Lily tutted at him