North Moors

Hobbit name for the grass-covered downlands on the northern edge of the Shire colony. The Tarmas called them the Meadow Downs. Hobbit hunters and shepherds wandered across them from the new settlements in the Northfarthing, but the Tarma peasants defended their grazing rights fiercely , beating and even killing Halfling trespassers. There was talk among the common folk of retaliatory "havoks " or even killing raids south into the woodlands. Tarma officials would react strongly to any such riotous acts, more because of the challenge to their authority then out of concern for the Hobbits. However, they paid little attention to mutterings among the "rabble, " and blood-shed could result.