Battle of Fornost

Um, just hang on to that theme because it's so important in Tolkien's mindset when it comes to, uh, the story of the hobbits, uh, and this very hobbit-focused storytelling in The Lord of the Rings.

Um, they did send bowmen to the Battle of Fornost in Third Age 1975.

So as, uh, as time goes on, Fornost and the region of Arnor continues to decline.

Uh, the hobbits do contribute somewhat militarily during this period.

Um, or if it's truly just like this is just this piece of innocence needs to be preserved in which it needs to grow in some aspects and every single one of us can take part of that

I think what fascinates me about the Shire is it is this like idyllic bucolic land surrounded by unimaginable danger like you have the fallen kingdom of Fornos to like the almost immediate north We see in the Lord of the Rings, just to the east, is all the barrows for the barrow-whites and all that, when the two are probably related to the Battle of Fornost.

In the west, you have a tower holding a palantir that everybody just kind of forgot about.

But you also have, like, the Grey Havens to the west.