In this week's episode, our harfoot lasses Nori and Poppy encounter another society of halflings - the stoors. They're treated with suspicion until the stoor leader, Gundabel, realizes they're all long-estranged family, in a way. It turns out that Nori and Poppy's harfoot band are the descendants of a group of adventurous stoors, who set off ages ago in search of a prophesied paradise of abundant rivers and green growing fields, called Süza-t.
Süza-t is the land of abundant rivers and green growing fields that halflings settled roughly 1,300 years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, uniting the harfoots, stoors, and fallohides into a single halfling culture. We know it by its English name: the Shire.
The episode doesn't explain that Süza-t is synonymous with the Shire, because these hobbits haven't gotten there yet. But there's another reason that's really going to bake your noodle: Süza-t isn't an ancient name for paradise that was replaced with 'the Shire' once hobbits settled there. It's the current name for the Shire, because The Lord of the Rings was 'translated' into English.
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