winter winds (whistling through)

The Shire that Gandalf finds when he travels in search of a Burglar is vastly different from the one he expects and remembers from before the Fell Winter ravaged its way across once peaceful hills, a trail of starving wolves in its wake. Victim to a harsh ruler and to the hardest winter in Middle-Earth's history, the Shire has changed, and so has Bilba Baggins.