Hobbit

This article is about the fictional people. For the species nicknamed "Hobbit", see Homo floresiensis.

Hobbits are a fictional race in the Middle-earth world invented by J. R. R. Tolkien, also often called halflings.

They appeared in the books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Several important main characters in those books are hobbits, such as Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins.

Hobbits (or similar beings) have become very popular and are now often used in fantasy fiction and (video) games.

Appearance

Hobbits are like small humans between two and four foot tall (between 60 and 120 centimeters). They have hair/fur on the top side of their feet, leathery foot-soles, and slightly pointed ears. They tend to be stout and often have brown and curly hair. Male hobbits do not have beards. Hobbits live longer compared to humans, and many hobbits reach the age of 100.

Culture

Hobbits are a peaceful people and live a simple, pre-industrial life in the land which they call The Shire, and also in Bree-land.

A typical hobbit-house has a long hallway with rooms on both sides, and round doors and windows. Originally these were underground in hills, then the house was called a smial; but this architecture(style of building) is also used for 'normal' houses above ground.

Hobbit Media

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  The hobbits are described as being of three types, Harfoots, Fallohides, and Stoors, all deriving from a region to the east of the Shire, in particular the Angle between two rivers, and migrating to the Shire at different times.

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  Hobbit holes or smials as depicted in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy

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  The three peoples who founded England included those who came from the Angle between Flensburg Fjord and the Schlei, from the East (across the North Sea), hence the name "England". The migrations of these three peoples are reflected in those of the three types of hobbits.

Related pages

• The Hobbit
• The Lord of the Rings
• Middle-earth