Marcho

The senior of the two famous Hobbits who negotiated with the King of Arnor, King Argeleb II, for the lands of the Shire, Marcho especially was a visionary. Marcho had served as chieftain of the Fallohides, and he and his brother Blanco had the privilege of leading the parade of joyful little settlers across the Bridge of Stonebows into their new home. The brothers also attempted to control and organize the chaos which transpired between the tribes of Hobbits after they were newly moved into the Shire. He was less than fully successful at this endeavor, and for a time Hobbit tribes conspired and even fought among each other for tracts of the new donative. But it is unlikely that anyone could have done better than the two Fallohidish brothers, considering Hobbitish tendencies to extreme territorialism. Marcho, and his brother Blanco, truly gave to the Hobbits the most memorable of gifts, a land of their own: the Shire.