Hobbitry-in-arms

The Hobbitry-in-arms was the militia of the Shire.The Lord of the Rings, Prologue, III: "Of the Ordering of the Shire" The captain of the Hobbitry-in-arms was the Shire-thain, who summoned these armed Hobbits at a Shire-muster in times of emergency.The Lord of the Rings, Prologue, I: "Concerning Hobbits"The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Six, Ch. VIII: "The Scouring of the Shire"
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