The Shire (in a number of translations - Hobbitshire, Lodge, Hobbiting, Zaselye, Edge) is a country invented by J. R. R. Tolkien, described in books devoted to Middle-earth. It is inhabited exclusively by Hobbits. On the maps of the writer, the Scheer is located approximately where England is on modern maps of Europe; throughout the narrative, the author distributed a large number of points of contact between them.Solid areas: 6%