It might take some time, though.

And they are very nosy, too.

Now,they meet the Stoors, another of those branches.

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They eventually settle in what will eventually become the Shire.

In the Shire, Stoors can be found mostly in Buckland, by the Brandywine River.

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This is a surprise for the two Harfoots, who have wandered around Rhovanion all their lives.

And there is yet another famous Stoor in Tolkien’s Legendarium.

Under the Ring’s sinister influence, Smeagol kills Deagol and vanishes, eventually becomingthe creature known as Gollum.

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Epic drama set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth.

Smeagol and Deagol are among the Stoors who didn’t migrate west to the Shire.

If they had, the fate of Middle-earth could have been completely different.

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