Built near the mouth of the Great River Anduin in 2350 of the Second Age by the Numenoreans, the city and port of Pelargir became the most important haven for the ships of the Dunedain on Middle-earth. It was here that Elendil landed after the destruction of Numenor and wnt out to found Gondor and Arnor.

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During the War of the Ring, there was a fair and green plain called the Pelennor Fields surrounding Gondor's fortress-city of Minas Tirith. Here the crucial Battle of Pelennor Fields was fought, and the tide of the war turned. Pelennor means 'the fenced land' because the plain was encircled by a defensive wall called the Rammas Echor, that was built by the Ruling Steward Ecthelion II in the year 2954 of the Third Age.

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The greatest mountains in all of Arda were the Pelori Mountains, which were raised by the Valar to defend the Undying Lands from Melkor's forces in Utumno on Middle-earth.

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Hobbit of the Shire. Peregrin Took was born in 2990 of the Third Age, the son of the Thain of the Shire. As a loyal friend of Frodo Baggins, he undertook the Quest of the Ring in 3019. He survived many adventures with the Fellowship of the Ring until its collapse. In the fourteenth year of the Fourth Age, Pippin became the thirty-second Thain of the Shire and ruled until the year 64. He and Merry (Meriadoc Brandybuck) decided to spend their last years in Rohan and Gondor, where they were buried with honour in the House of Kings.

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In the histories of the War of the Ring it is told how the smallest and most timid of races, the Hobbits, were the means by which the War was won. So the Periannath, as the Hobbits were known in the Grey-elven tongue, became famed in the songs of Elves and Men and were praised for their valour.

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A remnant of an exiled people of the Dwarves who lived in the land of Beleriand long before the Elves came. These were the Petty-dwarves and they inhabited the forest land of the River Narog and delved the halls of Amon Rhud and Nulukkizdin (which later became the Elven kingdom of Nargothrond). When the Sindarin Elves came into the nearby land of Doriath, not knowing what manner of being these people were, they hunted them for sport. In time they learned they were but a diminished Dwarvish people who had become estranged from other Dwarves by some evil deed done long before in the land east of the Blue Mountains. So the Sindar ceased their persecution of this unhappy race, whom they called the Noegyth Nibin.

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Before the days of the War of the Ring the Hobbits were a quiet folk who could claim little influence on the World beyond the Shire. Of one thing, however, they did boast to be the makers and masters, and that was the smoking of the herb nicotiana, which was named Galenas in Elvish. When originally brought from the land of Numenor by Men, it was prized only for the scent of its flower.

It was the Hobbits of Bree who grew it specially for the purpose of smoking it in long-stemmed pipes. Not knowing the Elvish name for the plant, or caring little if they did, they renamed it Pipe-weed after its most common use.

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On Middle-earth Ponies proved excellent servants of Hobbits and Dwarves, who, owing to their stature, could not ride on the backs of Horses. As beasts of burden, the Ponies also hauled the ore and tradeware of Dwarves and the field crops of Hobbits and Men.

In the annals of the Hobbits mention is given to those Ponies that aided the nine who went on the Quest of the Ring. By Tom Bombadil they were named: Sharp-ears, Swish-tail, Wise-nose, White-socks, and Bumpkin. Bombadils own Pony was called Fatty Lumpkin. The faithful beast that Samwise Gamgee befriended was just plain Bill.

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On the great citadel of Dunharrow was set an ancient maze of walls and entrances that would break the advance of any army before it reached the Hold of Dunharrow. At each gate in the road huge stone guardians stood. These guardians were called Pukel-Men by the Rohirrim who came to Dunharrow centuries after the race that built this maze had vanished.

The Pukel-men statues were of crouched, pot-bellied Man-like beings with almost comic faces, they have been compared to the Wild Men called the Woses of Druadan.

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