ahiddenkitty:

jezunya:

bagginshield:

we make fun of thorin getting lost in the shire but you know the nazgul also had to keep asking for directions to find bag end so maybe hobbits’ city planning is just wack

Now I’m thinking about hobbits living in an almost Labyrinth-esque Shire, where the roads & paths frequently change behind you. It’s a matter of the plants growing instantly over what was a road just a second ago (rather than gremlins living under the cobblestones), but because they’re all attuned to the plant-magic in the region, hobbits can always find their way (or possibly can even harness & control it, so as to keep their gardens looking the way they like, rather than having a new configuration spring up every day) and don’t see this as any problem, nor do they understand why outsiders keep complaining about how difficult it is to find their way in the Shire. Gandalf is either able to navigate the magic too, or he just blasts his way through the walls of vines & flowers to get wherever he’s going. 

Also: maybe this area between the rivers was already kinda cursed like this, which was why the King of Arnor so happily gifted it to the hobbits when they first wandered in from the east looking for a place to settle 😀 

I LIKE THIS THEORY