Talk:Shire (Middle-earth)
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Factual dispute: Tolkien (in an essay on the Languages of Middle-earth) describes The Shire as having an area of 18,000 square miles (more than the size of Yorkshire). A triangular area 100 x 50 miles would have an area of around 2500 square miles, leaving a lot of territory unaccounted for.
- As with Glorfindel, it's worth adding a little discussion of the apparent contradiction, this being the kind of value that Wikipedia adds for the Tolkien reader. Stan 20:37 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)
[edit] References
Can anyone provide references for the material cited? Dystopos 15:34, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
