![]() By 2470 Smeagol, who had murdered Deagol for the Ring, had fled to the Misty Mountains. The Stoors of the Gladden Fields survived at least until the year 2463, when Deagol the Stoor found the One Ring. Tolkien does not say whether the Stoors of the Gladden Fields suffered in this plague but the text implies that all northern peoples suffered to some extent from the plague. ![]() The Stoors who remained in Dunland all perished in the Great Plague of 1636. ![]() The Stoors of Dunland became divided in the year 1630 when many of their families migrated to the Shire, settling in the Marish along the western bank of the Baranduin river. The Stoors of the Angle became divided into two groups in the year 1356, when some of them fled the wars with Angmar back to Wilderland over the Misty Mountains the remaining Stoors of the Angle fled to Dunland. Historically, the Stoors had crossed the Misty Mountains by the Redhorn Pass around the Third Age year 1150, settling at first in Dunland and the Angle. In this context, Gandalf is speaking to Frodo of the Stoors who live in the Shire and the Buckland, not implying that all Stoors lived in those regions, but simply giving Frodo a contemporary reference. I guess they were of hobbit-kind akin to the fathers of the fathers of the Stoors, for they loved the River, and often swam in it, or made little boats of reeds…. “…very long ago, there lived by the banks of the Great River on the edge of Wilderland a clever-handed and quiet-footed little people. Some readers are unsure of this identification, however, because Gandalf tells Frodo in “The Shadow of the Past”: ![]() ![]() Tolkien referred to as the “Stoors of the Gladden Fields” in the appendices to The Lord of the Rings. ![]()
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