Long ago, a goblin chief led an army to invade the Shire. The Hobbit defenders slew the chief and succeeded repelling the invaders. Gorkil the current goblin king led his forces to make the invasion of the Shire successful that his ancestors failed to do. Before reaching the Shire, the goblins made a stop in Dunland as a wild man spoke to the goblin king, "We will fight for you, great goblin king."
"Why do you want to help us?" Gorkil questioned.
"My people have sworn to fight the horsemen and his allies who drove us out here; will you retake the lands for us?" the wild men decided to make a deal with the goblins.
"Very well, then. Anybody who is against our enemy is welcome," Gorkil recruited the wild men of Dunland who were sworn enemies of Rohan. Those humans were equipped with torches lethal against pikemen and were capable of pillaging enemy buildings.
The goblins and their wild men allies began the invasion on the Shire. The Hobbits fought with either short swords or throw rocks; however the goblins and wild men could easily take them down. "The Hobbits have four governing seats of power. Destroy those buildings and we'll quell whatever hope they might have for reprisal," Gorkil ordered the wild men to torch one of the seats of power.
"Goblins, just as we expected, to arms men!" the Hobbits were not alone in the Shire as there were humans camped around to protect the Hobbits.
"Dunedain, here! You can never help these scums," Gorkil guessed. Like the Ithilien rangers of Gondor, the Dunedain rangers were highly trained archers that cloak in trees and were also strong against monsters not just pikemen. However, the Dunedain had longer life-span than any normal human. Gorkil in his scorpion and the goblin spider riders could run those rangers over like any regular archers. While he and the goblin spider riders kept the Dunedain at bay, the spiderlings handled all the Hobbit defenders and the wild men torched the Green Dragon Inn, the Bag End (home of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins), and the remaining seats of power. The farms of Longbottom and Farmer Maggot were captured to be used as sources of extra resources to the goblin army.
After all the seats of power were destroyed and the Dunedain eliminated, "Hobbits will crumble before us and at last the Shire is mine, too easy," Gorkil spoke in delight and in a malicious tone. A human whose name was Grima Wormtongue led an army of Uruk-hai from Isengard arrived to the Shire under orders from Saruman, "I want to extend my gratitude, old great king, for clearing the Shire of the troublesome Dunedain," Saruman's spy spoke in a sly tone. The Uruk-hai army made up of warriors wielding swords and shields, pikemen for skewering opposing cavalry, crossbowmen as substitutes of archers, and berserkers that equipped with two-handed swords and wearing helmets full of blood making them crazy as well as strong counters against any melee infantry. The Uruk army not only limited to infantry as a number of Uruks manned the long-range ballistae for siege purpose.
"You're dismissed now! Go back to your caves where you all belong, goblin carrion. Get rid of them, Uruk-hai!" Wormtongue ordered.
"Shire is mine!" Gorkil spoke to fight for what belongs to him. The goblin infantry and wild men began to engage the Uruk pikemen to make way for the goblin spider riders to run the other Uruk infantry especially berserkers and to take out the ballistae. However the berserkers began running towards the goblin infantry to start their killing spree. Those crazy unarmored fighters killed multiples of goblin warriors and wild men within one strike. Goblin archers had to take out the berserkers and pikemen from a distance but they were not effective against the Uruk warriors that gathered in shield formation. The spiderlings managed to pick off the Uruk warriors from the side; however the Uruk crossbowmen fired at the wild men, spiderlings, and the goblin infantry. The Uruk warriors in shield formation could not stand a chance against the cave trolls using trees and the giants' melee attacks; however the ballistae could lay waste to the trolls and giants. Gorkil had his scorpion to give Grima poison sting and the goblin king stabbed him in the stomach, "You should never have come here, fool."
The result of the goblin invasion caused the surviving Hobbits to be scattered throughout Middle-Earth. Frodo, Merry, Pippin, Sam, and Bilbo became homeless and Sam could never have the peaceful married life that he wanted. Gorkil decided to seek the dragons of Withered Heath to help him dealing with the threats of the remaining Dunedain and Saruman.
