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| Songburrow Hall, home of The Order, on 4 Brookbank Street |
The Order was officially founded in SR 1413 by Rowana Fairborn, with the support of Thain Paladin Took II. Even before this time it had existed in all but name through an informal group of friends, meeting once a week at the Golden Perch in Stock to share stories and songs around the fireside.
In SR 1414, The Order found its collective home in Songburrow Hall, a large and rambling burrow at the heart of Songburrow, a small village in the Southfarthing of the Shire. Here, The Order possesses arguably the finest and most comprehensive collection of mathoms outside of Society hands and a library of scholarly works, family and genealogical records second only to that of the Great Smials in Tuckborough, the ancestral home of the Took family.
The collection itself is impeccably curated and items are often exhibited or lent out to interested parties, though the majority remains on non-permanent display at Songburrow Hall.
The name of The Order is thought to originate from a single leaf of parchment, documenting the journey of the Fallohide brothers Marcho and Blanco as they crossed the Brandywine and settled in the Shire. In this brief account, of which the sole copy resides in Songburrow Hall, mention is made of an object of great significance – the so-called ‘Lost Mathom’. The exact nature and whereabouts of this mathom is the matter of continued debate.