Has the Shire ever dealt with peasant rebellions?

We follow the viewpoint of the equivalent of the Landed Gentry, the Baggins, Tooks, and Brandybucks, and a Baggins manservant. They're the archetypical noble gentlemen who treats their staff and tenants well, with their favor being returned by people like the Gaffer.

But the vast majority of the residents of the Shire are farmer hobbits that work the land and pay their landlords a share. Tenant Farmers. We know that Farmer Maggot for example, despite his seemingly lowly name is in fact a landowner who has tenants that work for him do not own their own land. Even if the Hobbits generally known as a garrulous people not known for quarreling, there must have been some bad eggs that thought they could get more than their fair share. We see that Hobbits are not immune to greed in the form of Lotho Sackville-Baggins who rules the Shire as a dictator at the end of the Third Age. Tolkien even played into medieval stereotypes by depicting Ted Sandyman, a miller, as a shifty cheat. I mean, the whole stereotype of the criminal and disliked miller comes from the feudal systems where peasants were forced to get their grain from their local mill that was the only one around. I don't see multiple mills around the Shire mentioned (though the fact that it's called the Old Mill does imply a newer one).

Not all Hobbits live in luxurious Hobbit-holes or homes either, as the poorest Hobbits live in earthen pits with no creature comforts besides maybe a window.

So historically speaking, was there a point in the span of the Shire where the gentry and aristocracy pushed their tenants too far and suffered a violent revolt?

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u/TheBatIsI — 6 days ago

WTF do I do with 4 copies of Welt's Cone?

Standard Banner loves to give me Welt's cone.

As far as I can tell, no one ever wants it and it's beaten out by other signature sigs and the old standbys like Tutorial.

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u/TheBatIsI — 8 days ago

How did Dathomir go from Frank Frazetta-esque lush planet of Primitive Space Babes to swampy and barren planet of Gothic Witches?

Was it as simple as Lucas going 'that's hot' like he did Aayla and Darth Talon and trying to canonize them but in his own style?

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u/TheBatIsI — 12 days ago

[Battletech] How was Canopus ever a tourist destination in the first place if it takes months to get there from anywhere outside Canopus?

Say I'm a young noble with money to burn from Tharkad and I wanna celebrate with a wild vacation.

If it takes like 30 jumps to reach Canopus. Even in the heyday of the Star League, that's gotta be like half a year to even reach Canopus.

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u/TheBatIsI — 20 days ago