Re:The Moral Economy of the Shire
by Attrecomet on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @10:28AM
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In a pre-industrial society, rich agricultural lands and even just this year's produce would count as something worthy to loot. Heck, they might do so now -- I'm sure Russia wouldn't be unhappy to be able to add fertile Ukrainian lands to their dystopia.
Re:The Moral Economy of the Shire
by javier_e06 on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @01:48PM
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Water too. Loot the land, get the water and all that follows and reserve some arid land elsewhere for the Hobbits.
The shire didn't had nothing that would deserve going out of the way to loot it (at least nothing known).
Hobbits had a sort of primitive defense systems against occasional invasions of goblins and wolves and LOTR mention their skills in the use of several weapons. A few chickens or tobacco herbs simply don't not worth the mess, specially when men were richer and can just buy it.