Ted Sandyman’s Mill

(The Hobbiton Factory)

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“Hi!” cried Sam in an outraged voice.
“There’s that Ted Sandyman a-cutting down trees as he shouldn’t.
They didn’t ought to be felled: it’s that avenue beyond the Mill
that shades the road to Bywater.
I wish I could get at Ted, and I’d fell him!”
But now Sam noticed that the Old Mill had vanished,
and a large red-brick building was being put up where it had stood.
Lots of folk were busily at work.
There was a tall red chimney nearby.
Black smoke seemed to cloud the surface of the mirror.
“There’s some devilry at work in the Shire,” he said.
(from: The Fellowship of the Ring, page 470)

“Take Sandyman’s mill now.
Pimple knocked it down almost as soon as he came to Bag End.
Then he brought in a lot o’ dirty-looking Men to build a
bigger one and fill it full o’ wheels and outlandish contraptions.
Only that fool Ted was pleased by that (…)
They’re always a-hammering and a-letting out a smoke and a stench,
and there isn’t no peace even at night in Hobbiton.
And they pour out filth a purpose;
they’ve fouled all the lower Water,
and it’s getting down into Brandywine.”
(from: The Return of the King, page 355-56)