Editing Samwise Gamgee (section)

=== The Scouring of the Shire ===

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 | quote  = So Sam planted saplings in all the places where specially beautiful or beloved trees had been destroyed, and he put a grain of the precious dust in the soil at the root of each. He went up and down the Shire in this labour; but if he paid special attention to [[Hobbiton]] and Bywater no one blamed him. ...<br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;Spring surpassed his wildest hopes. His trees began to sprout and grow, as if time was in a hurry and wished to make one year do for twenty. In the Party Field a beautiful young sapling leaped up: it had silver bark and long leaves and burst into golden flowers in April. It was indeed a ''[[mallorn]]'', and it was the wonder of the neighbourhood.
 | source = ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', book 6, ch. 9 "The Grey Havens"
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The hobbits return home<ref group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1955|loc=book 6, ch. 7, "Homeward Bound"}}</ref> horrified to find the Shire under the control of "Sharkey" ([[Saruman]]) and his ruffians who had wantonly felled trees and despoiled the villages; the hobbits defeat them at the [[Battle of Bywater]] and [[The Scouring of the Shire|scour the Shire]] of all the ruffians and their works.<ref group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1955|loc=book 6, ch. 8, "[[The Scouring of the Shire]]"}}</ref> Sam travels the length and breadth of [[the Shire]] replanting trees, using the elf-queen [[Galadriel]]'s gift of earth from her garden, and one seed of the elvish [[mallorn]] tree, which he plants at Hobbiton. The saplings grow at an astonishing rate.<ref name="Grey Havens" group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1955|loc=book 6, ch. 9, "The Grey Havens"}}</ref>