[T 6], Hobbits first appear in The Hobbit as the rural people of the Shire; the book tells of the unexpected adventure that happened to one of them, Bilbo, as a party of Dwarves seeks to recover an ancient treasure from the hoard of a dragon. According to lead singer Mike Odd, the band received over 100 pieces of hate mail from angry Tolkien fans. Hobbits first appeared in the 1937 children's novel The Hobbit, whose titular hobbit is the protagonist Bilbo Baggins, who is thrown into an unexpected adventure involving a dragon. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. To their south lived the far more numerous Harfoots, and far south in the Gladden Fields lived the Stoors . [T 10], The Stoors were the second most numerous group of hobbits and the last to enter Eriador. "[8], Tolkien has King Théoden of Rohan say "the Halflings, that some among us call the Holbytlan". Hobbits are an imaginary people in the novels of J. R. R. Tolkien. [T 6], In the Third Age, the hobbits undertook the arduous task of crossing the Misty Mountains. ", "Letter to Harry C. Bauer - Tolkien Gateway", "Holbytlan: The ancient origin of the word 'Hobbit, "Hobbit holes as loess dwellings and the Shire as a loess region", "Rosemary's Billygoat: A Big Hairy Kick in the Behind from Hobbit Fans", "How a hobbit is rewriting the history of the human race", Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of the Rings", The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, Risk: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Edition, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hobbit&oldid=1009331620#Divisions, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 28 February 2021, at 01:01. History. Fallohides. Unknown. The Stoors lived on the marshy Gladden Fields where the Gladden River met the Anduin; and the Fallohides preferred to live in the woods under the Misty Mountains. The Nature of the Fallohides. While situated in the valley of the Anduin River, the hobbits lived close by Eotheod, the ancestors of the Rohirrim, and this led to some contact between the two. They were the smallest in stature, and the most typical of the race as described in The Hobbit. In the prologue of the The Fellowship of the Ring, Harfoots are described as having "browner" skin and are the "most normal and representative variety of Hobbit." The origins of the name and idea of "hobbits" have been debated; literary antecedents include Sinclair Lewis's 1922 novel Babbitt, and Edward Wyke Smith's 1927 The Marvellous Land of Snergs. They preferred to dwell near rivers and enjoyed fishing and swimming. [T 15] Thus, upon recovery from the wound inflicted by the Witch-King of Angmar on Weathertop, Gandalf speculates that the hobbit Frodo "may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can". Stoors were the heaviest of the three Hobbit types, which is a far cry from the gangling, skulking Gollum we see in the future. FOTR - "Prologue", 1. The Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller, and shorter, and they were beardless and bootless; their hands and feet were neat and nimble; and they preferred highlands and hillsides. Indipendence. The influential Took clan had distinct Fallohide traces both in appearance and character, as did the Oldbuck and later Brandybuck clan. As Fallohidish culture was much more open to outside influ… Its been a long time since i read the books. The exact orig… The Harfoots made up the greatest population of Hobbits and most-closely resembled those described in The Hobbit . There were three types of Hobbit-kind: the Harfoots, Stoors and Fallohides. As a result, many old words and names in "Hobbitish" are derivatives of words in Rohirric. To their south lived the far more numerous Harfoots, and far south in the Gladden Fields lived the Stoors. However, at least one politely requests being called a hobbit instead, implying the word may be inadvertently offensive to them. Originally, there were three types of hobbits, with different physical characteristics and temperaments: Harfoots, Stoors, and Fallohides And it says it was his cousin he killed, woops my bad. In The Hobbit, hobbits live together in a small town called Hobbiton, which in The Lord of the Rings is identified as being part of a larger rural region called the Shire, the homeland of the hobbits in the northwest of Middle-earth.