Here's a nice Shire-like place for those Hobbits living in the southern Willamette Valley of Oregon:
Mt. Pisgah Arboretum
From the top of Mount Pisgah you can appreciate this scene in
LotR - Book One - Chapter 11 -
Knife in the Dark:
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Standing upon the rim of the ruined circle, they saw all round below them a wide prospect, for the most part of lands empty and featureless, except for patches of woodland away to the south, beyond which they caught here & there the glint of distant water. Beneath them on this southern side there ran like a ribbon the Old Road, coming out of the West & winding up & down, until it faded behind a ridge of dark land to the east. Nothing was moving on it. Following its line eastward with their eyes they saw the mountains: the nearer foothills were brown & sombre; behind them stood taller shapes of grey; and behind those again were high white peaks glimmering among the clouds.
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