Leumas Hardbuckle, of the Hillside Hardbuckles

“I’ve got a good feeling about this.”– Leumas Hardbuckle The third child, but first son, of Ray and Cat Hardbuckle was born in Elmshire in 552 CY. He’s a little bit taller than most Hardbuckles, owing to the Tallfellow Elisedds on his mother’s side. Leumas spent his youth reading and studying maps, dreaming of going to other places, but was …

The Hardbuckles of Elmshire

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. — J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” I …