Michel Delving
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 Michel Delving
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| Region: | The Shire |
| Area: | Delving Fields |
| Location: | [33.9S, 74.9W] |
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| "Indeed, even in the hilly regions and the older villages, such as Hobbiton or Tuckborough, or in the chief township of the Shire, Michel Delving on the White Downs, there were now many houses of wood, brick, or stone..." |
| The Fellowship of the Ring, Prologue |
Description
Michel Delving is the chief township of the Shire, on the White Downs of the Westfarthing. The Mayoral Seat of the Shire, Michel Delving is home to the offices of the Mayor and the bounders, the only Auction House in the Shire, the only Training Hall for class trainers, and is proud to host the Mathom House operated by the Mathom Society.
Town Hole
The Town Hole is the office of Mayor Will Whitfoot, the chief Shirriff-house and offices of the Bounders, as well as the central office of the Shire's Quick Post mail service. Also found at the Town Hole is the Shire's Vault-keeper, and other civic officials such as the Clerk of Kinships and the Notary.
Mathom-house
The Mathom-house is the Shire's museum of mathoms, and the home of The Mathom Society. Among the most prestigious items in the collection of the Mathom-house was the mithril corslet of Bilbo Baggins, until he removed it and took it and his sword Sting with him when he left the Shire on September 22, 3001 III. The Mathom-house offers adventurers in good standing the use of a Workbench and a Superior Study.
The Mathom Society members enjoy many lavish feasts, and they routinely need to restock their supply of various foods and drinks. Cooks who donate these delicacies can gain reputation with Mathom Society.
The Bird and Baby
The Bird and Baby Inn is Michel Delving's major hub of social activity. Weary travelers can indulge in food and drink, and share stories of adventures by the fire. The Bird and Baby also offers the services of a Healer, Barber and Hobby Master.
Carlo Blagrove Tavern Keep Tulip Chubb Barber Gardenia Bracegirdle Healer Estmar Bolger Hobby Master Esmerelda Burrows Lorgo Boffin Jack Lewisdown Carlo Williams Owen Farfield Rabbit
Training Hall
The Training Hall of Michel Delving offers adventurers the opportunity to advance their abilities with skilled trainers from across Middle-earth.
Vendor Hall
In the Vendor Hall of Michel Delving, adventurers can purchase a wide variety of goods and equipment, ranging from foods and draughts to weapons and armor.
Buttercup Grubb Outfitter Gilda Sweetwater Light Armour Trader Gilly Bracegirdle Medium Armour Trader Griffin Bunce Bowyer Brinley Gardener Weapon Trader Dudo Greenacre Two-handed Weapon Trader Indor Weaver One-handed Weapon Trader
Auction Hall
The Shire's Auction Hall is found at Michel Delving. The Auction Hall allows adventurers and crafters the opportunity to buy and sell a wide variety of goods and equipment.
Craft-fair
The Craft-fair is located in the southern Delving Fields. Adventurers seeking a vocation are directed to speak to Mistress of Apprentices Blossom Proudfoot. Craftsmen and craftswomen can learn and advance their crafting skills at the Craft-fair's forges, workbenches and oven. Michel Delving's Craft-fair has the distinction of being home to one of the few Superior Ovens in Eriador.
Farming Fields
Michel Delving's South Fields have farming fields where farmers can cultivate vegetables, grains, and pipe-weed. Novice Farmhand Largo Proudfoot sells various seeds, materials, and recipes at the workbench of the South Fields farm house.
Superior Farmlands can be found north of Hobbiton, east of the Grange.
Bard
Michel Delving is home to bard Gammer Took, who offers adventurers the opportunity to purchase various musical instruments, as well as to manage traits. Gammer Took is the only Bard in the Shire.
Stable
Stable-master Andfast Tunnelly operates the Michel Delving stable, renting horses and ponies to adventurers seeking travel to various towns and villages of the Shire; as well as longer journeys to nearby regions such as Bree-land and Ered Luin.
Townspeople
- Ruby Primstone
- Peony Grubb
- Daisy Brockhouse
- Graland Whitfoot
- Ned Diggins
- Polo Brockhouse
- Marigold Twospade
- Hugo Broadbelt
- Nosey Hobbit
- Hungry Hobbit
- Iris Goodbody Town Crier
- Townsperson
- Bounder
- Farmer
Milestone
Michel Delving has a Milestone, offering adventurers the opportunity to bind their Map Home to Michel Delving.
External Reference
- Michel Delving (Landmark) at Lotro Lorebook
- Michel Delving (Lore) at Lotro Lorebook
- Michel Delving entry at Encyclopedia of Arda
- Michel Delving at TolkienGateway.net
| Settlements, Areas and Landmarks of The Shire | |
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| Settlements: | Brockenborings • Budgeford • Bywater • Frogmorton • Hobbiton • Little Delving • Michel Delving • Needlehole • Overhill • Scary • Stock • Tuckborough • Waymeet • Woodhall |
| Areas: | Bindbole Wood • Bridgefields • The Frogmoors • Green Hill Country • Greenfields • Hobbiton-Bywater • North Bridgefields • Rushock Bog • Shire Homesteads • The Hill • The Delving Fields • The Marish • Tookland |
| Landmarks: | Abandoned Elf-camp • Appledores • Bamfurlong • Bolestones • Brandywine Bridge • Bridgefields Wall • Bucklebury Ferry • Bywater Bridge • Dora Brownlock's Farm • The Grange • The Great Willow • Golfimbul's Hole • Lob's Grove • Mathom-house • Methel-stage • Narrowcleeve • Old Odo's Leaf-farm • The Party Tree • Pinglade • Puddifoot's Fields • The Quarry • Sandson's Farm • Sandyman's Mill • The Scrag-dells • South Fields • Southfarthing Gate • Stocktower • Three Farthing Stone • Tom Cotton's Farm • Troll's Knoll • The Yale-height |
