#shire

[norhuu]

✨A woven yarn tapestry of the Shire✨

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

oh to be a hobbit cat 

[shirecorn]

How tall is Shirecorn?

It occurs to me that I never specified how tall my fursona is. Horses are typically measured in Hands, which is about the width of an adult's hand, measured from thumb to pinky and stacked like so:

The hands reach up to the withers (shoulder) of a horse, rather than measuring up to their head.

The top of the withers is actually determined by the long bones that protrude off the back of the spine, rather than the upper edge of the horse's shoulder blade. It's a bit of a misnomer to call them bones, as they are part of the vertebra, not joints connected to it.

You have spines too, but yours are not as pronounced as those of ungulates (hoofed mammals) nor as epic as spinosaurus.

in horses, the muscle that lays on top of these bones determines the height of the withers.

A "Hand," understood as a standardized unit, is equal to 4 inches, 10.16 centimeters. Modern competitions and the professional horse world measure exact to the withers height in centimeters, but your average cowboy still talks in hands.

The first horse is 14 hands, so 56 inches/142.24 centimeters at the shoulder. That's on the smaller end of average for a horse! For those whose perception of height is compared to their own, that's 4'8, so the shoulder is below the top of most peoples' heads.

The tallest horse breed in the world is the shire horse.

These massive horses can reach 19 hands tall! To make it even, let's have both our guy and our shire be 17.5 hands tall. That's 5'10, 178 CM at the shoulder and top of withers.

Where does Shirecorn fit into this?

I represent myself as a shire unicorn with fluffy feet and a blueish coat. Until today, everyone has had to guess my height whenever drawing or picturing me. I haven't really gotten into it because I knew I needed to explains hands, withers, and average horse heights. But with all that out of the way, I have created a height chart to show Bo vs a typical shire, vs a human.

Don't get distracted by the typical shire silhouette. I just threw that in there to show how I measure up.

This is me:

That's right, I am 1 hand tall. That's 4 inches, or about 10 cm, measured at the withers! If you use the top of my horn, you'll get the wrong height.

But now that you know how to measure a horse, you can picture me in all my Shirecorn glory.

Go ahead, put in pocket. Take on adventure. Set me free. Stack shirecorns up to measure horses and humans alike. The power is in your hands.

[verk0my]

bilbo and thorin inspired by trimcoast's beautiful tolkien illustrations

you can get a print here: inprnt!   

[mooreaux]

@night-market-if is running a Christmas game for us, and my fellow player characters have had quite the time skip!!! I love all the little differences. I’m playing Anemone and will post her soon!

[illustratus]

Gandalf Returns to Hobbiton by John Howe

[callumogden]

I made a set of Tolkien inspired fantasy maps of real-world locations including Scotland, the UK and Ireland, Europe, New England and North America for fun but turns out people like using them in their games so, here's how you can find them!

You can download copies of all these maps for free with or without labels for printing or use in your TTRPGs over on my Tumblr page here:

Fantasy Maps in a Tolkien Style

You can also buy prints of these maps on my Redbubble page :

If you would like to use these in a commercial project, drop me a DM and I'd love to chat!

[horsesarecreatures]

Shire - photo by vordermuehlen_hof

[19silvermirrors]

Qijiu & their horses about to set out on an adventure🌾🐎

[autistook]

I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.

[ed-art-studio]

I love painting the charcater of Gandalf; he was so well written, and executed, by Sir Ian McKellen! Click HERE for prints.

#gandalf #lotr #gandalfthegrey #shire

[alrauna]

Serena Malyon “The Party Tree”

[miniimaelstrom]

I have just learned that some BagginShield fics that end up with Thorin and Bilbo back in the Shire instead of at Erebor are tagged "reshirement" and that is both delightful and lovely. That is all.

[i-dont-know-anything-anymore]

[any huge middle earth conflict]

Gandalf: ima get a baggins

[khorazir]

Happy Birthday, Professor Tolkien

[tolkienillustrations]

Bag End by Jerry Vanderstelt