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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greybar" data-source="post: 547582" data-attributes="member: 4938">Yea Geography!Just off the top of my head, so all disclaimers apply.Basically the wars that happened in the late Second Age and Third Age revolved around Mordor, so the Shire was neatly away from all that.  The other big nastiness that wasn't in the south and east  happened up and down the mountains to the northeast and far north (where the orcs/goblins/dwarves are busy killing each other).  Thus the Shrine in the north-central area pretty much just wasn't tramped on.  Nice key here - if you don't have something people want they won't bother to come rob you.I don't think the northwest (Rivendell, Grey Havens) has seen much battle for the entire Third Age.  Then again, Elrond Half-Elven hanging out with the "greatest of the Elven Rings", can't hurt.Now Lothlorien is a bit more amazing.  The only reason it hasn't been tromped goes something like this:* Galadriel is the oldest elf in Middle-Earth (as far as I know), having actually *lived* in Valinor before joining with Feanor to charge back into Middle-Earth after the Simarils.  Thus by general Tolkien logic, she is pretty powerful of spirit.* She has the Ring of Adamant, which can't hurt.* I wouldn't be surprised if some of the other elves in Lothlorien are as old as she.John</blockquote>