Middle-earth Hexcrawl Project: The Shire (Complete)

Back in September of this year, I began a daily writing prompt inspired by this year's reread of The Lord of the Rings and Idraluna Archive's excellent hexmap of Middle-earth. I began writing one hex entry a day.

Now, three months later, I have keyed all of the hexes within the bounds of the Shire. I have collated all of the entries together, here, for your convenience and enjoyment.

Click on the cover to access the document.
Art by Goran Gligovic, used with permission.

This document includes

• Each hex, village, and township within the Shire
• Random encounters for rural hexes
• Random encounters for urban hexes
• Rumours
• A linked calendar 
• Dozens of quests for would-be burglars
• Five nested mini-dungeons 

Settlements

Eastfarthing

• Brockenborings (45.59)

• Budgeford (47.60)

• Deephallow (50.59)

• Dwaling (44.61)

• Frogmorton (47.59)

• Rushey (49.59)

• Scary (46.60)

• Stock (47.61)

• Whitfurrows (47.60)

• Willowbottom (51.58)

• Woodhall (48.59)

Northfarthing

• Greenfield (42.58)

• Long Cleeve (43.53)

• Oatbarton (44.58)

Southfarthing

• Gamwich (44.49)

• Hardbottle (51.54)

• Longbottom (51.57)

• Pincup (49.58)

• Sackville (52.56)

Westfarthing

• Bywater (47.56)

• Greenholm (49.50)

• Hobbiton (47.56)

• Little Delving (46.53)

• Michel Delving (48.54)

• Needlehole (46.54)

• Nobottle (46.54)

• Tightfield (45.51)

Quests

• A Matter Of Inheritance (51.54)

• A Plague Of Frogs (47.59)

• A Queer Haunting (48.56)

• Antique Find (50.60)

• Badger Incursion (45.59)

• Bog-Wood (46.54)

• Bounding The Big Folk (52.56)

• Cheese Syndicate (48.54)

• Conjurer Of Cheap Tricks (49.50)

• Deephallow House (50.59)

• "Fair" Ferry Markets (47.61)

• Falconer Needed (49.58)

• Featherstone Mystery (46.58)

• Feverish Child (47.55)

• Flowers For Heartbreak (48.54)

• Giant Skeleton (43.55)

• Hedge Maze (44.58)

• Letter Of Shop Talk (48.55)

• Literary Burglary (46.53)

• Lost Dog (47.56)

• Lost Froggy (46.54)

• Missing Child (42.58)

• Missing Mathom (48.59)

• Missing Messenger (48.54)

• Missing Sheep (43.53)

• Mysterious Door (44.61)

• Mysterious Package (47.60)

• Mystery Mushrooms (47.56)

• Needle-Tooth Tom (49.59)

• Of Fungus And Worms (51.58)

• Pony Peril (49.52)

• Prize Cow (46.57)

• Raid The Ranger's Library (44.49)

• Raise What's Left Of The Flag (48.57)

• Rare Ingredient (46.59)

• Rats (47.56)

• Rope Thief (45.51)

• Scandalous Party Preparation (46.54)

• Scarecrow (45.54)

• Special Delivery (51.57)

• Steal From The Thief (52.56)

• That's Some Spider (47.60)

• The Black Boar Of The Yale (48.60)

• The Coffer From Harshport (51.57)

• Tookbank (48.56)

• Translation Trouble (48.54)

• Tuckborough (48.57)

• Waymeet (47.55)

• Whitwell (48.56)

Location Adventures

• Broken Windmill (45.53)

• Deephallow House (50.59)

• Gypsum Mine (43.55)

• Mr. Cuthbert Burrowes's Hedge Maze (44.58)

• Ruined Watchtower (42.59)

I hope you have fun with it!

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