Hobbits!

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What is it about them that makes us love them so much??? Just a thread to talk about Hobbits in general! The family trees...The shire...what they eat...just random hobbitty stuff!
One of the cast said in one of the commentaries on the fellowship EE DVD that hobbits dont realise they are small until they face something really big...that is soo cute!

Hahahaha that last part is so true and not just for hobbits........... I can't say that I am overfond of them as you are Peregr!n...... I mean they are cute but I preferred some of the other races....one question though for you hobbit-lovers............ what is up with that weed??

I love that the Hobbits have a good time. They enjoy the simple things in life, and most of them have a big heart. I could do without the hairy feet, but you can't have everything.

I love the hobbits!!! In the books I liked them because of their culture, lifestyle, and good heart. I liked them in the movies because they are played by four very beautiful actors!!!

Ah yes, the hobbits and their love of pipe weed and its lore. I love that they tell tales.

I love how they all have a grain of immense courage...as ably displayed by Sam, Frodo, Pippin, or Merry.

Yes Shadow, their courage and their hearts are bigger than their size.

though in some cases not bigger than their stomachs

So true.

*cough* Fatty Bolger *cough*

You have to love that Frodo and Bilbo were able to resist the evil of the ring better than the mortals. Tough little guys.

Well the ONLY one that was truly able to resist the temptation of the ring was Sam and that was only due to his unsurpassing love for Frodo (and I dont mean homosexual love!) so dont get mad at me

yeah but Frodo and bilbo resisted far longer than the high and mighty race of men. we all saw how Boromir fell, and he didn't even possess the ring.
go hobbitses....

yep hobbits rule...even on the Top Trumps cards they have the highest resilience!
but i like Boromir tho... he was cool
my friend has a cat called Boromir...they shorten it to Boz...

My friend's dog is named Frodo.. She named him that because he's little, adorable, and has big beautiful eyes.

Merry wrote a book about pipe-weed something like Herb Lore of the Shire...

yup that he did...

The only reason why I like Hobbits at all, is because that is what Gollum used to be!

And now we hates them!

We hates the Master...
Master loves us!
Nooooo....Master betrayed ussssss!!!

Hahahahaha all my animals are names after Dragon Ball Z........

My bearded dragon is Vegeta
My kids hamsters are Trunks, Gohan except for the one my little one named Joshua after my boyfriend
My cats are Piccolo and Bulma

YEs I am a DBZ freak!!!!!!!

Maybe when I get something else I will name it Nazgul............

we used to have a goldfish called nazgul...then it died... what is it with goldfish and dying?

Um...Nazgul are dead anyway, right? So...maybe the fish will come back all in black!?

Get nine Nazgul Goldfish and sic em' on the Shire!?

:LOL:

I guess Pippin should have been a she in the movie, what do you think
Peregr!n?

I like that hobbits enjoy fruit. Not many people today appreciate a good piece of fruit.

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Not me...I just like to BS! Hobbits like fruit...that's true! They really seem to like mushrooms!

Hobbits. The one society where it is o.k. to be fat.

I love the way these hobbits fight for the mushrooms............. wonder what kind they are????

That's what I'm saying! S'hrooms! Wonder why they are all diving on em' still?

Why thank you Erika! We be good to you if you be good to us!

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I think that Fuscia is great! I would not want to be a Hobbit...because they are fat! And...those feet are all wrong!

Ah, to run around, eat all you want, drink ale, and live in one of those cute little houses. To the Shire

Too tall...like Gandalf...I would be bumping my head!

Im back! Had to go eat Hobbits have a 'passion for mushrooms which surpasses even the greediest likings of Big People' thats what Tolkien said. I like mushrooms. Yum. I wouldnt have a problem with bumping my head....im short enough to fit in a hobbit hole!

P.S. this is off topic: i dont really want to boost my post count...and there is a top 20 posters???? i never knew that!

See...Peregr!n likes S'hrooms!

Harley likes magic S'hrooms....... give me ...... give me

hehe! I am a hobbit, it has been confirmed.

Keep your nasty chips!

wooo! all hail the hobbits! wait...i am a hobbit! All hail me!

I bow before no hobbit! I couldn't believe that part of the movie!

come on! you know you want to bow to the hobbits! give in! we rule!

Nope...Smeagol kicked a$s while he was still kicking...but the Ents are pretty cool!

ok, smeagol i cool...and so are the ents!

Of course...Hobbits are the most unlikely of Heroes!

but the most unlikely people do the most unlikely things quite often, so wouldnt that make them the most likely people doing the most likely things?

So...Peregr!n...tell me....how hairy are YOUR hobbit feet? And just what size of shoe would a hobbit wear if they were that cultured? That always made me laugh, because the Hobbits dressed all nice except for their big old bare feet!

well my feet are a size 10...and i am 4ft 8/9 or something! i was destined to be a hobbit! and probably a size 10 if they had to wear shoes!

Maybe for a kid!!!! Those friggin' Hobbits had some big ol' pontoons! Size 20 men's is more like it! And they were pretty damn hairy...are the women Hobbits feet like that too?

yep! it kept thier feet warm, and the soles were like leather!

Blech! That's just nasty! No foot rubbing from this man!

but imagine women having beards!

Dwarves? I've seen some women up in here that have more facial hair than me! Nasty!

are you serious?!

Hell yeah I'm cereal! I keep my goatee very short because it's so thick and I've seen some women who need to do the same thing! Ever hear of nair?

Hairy women? Dude where are you hanging out? I think it is amazing that Dwarves breed at all.

I wonder why Tolkien made so many characters hairy?

Tolkien had a hair fetish...news at 11:00. Ug, this one lady that was going to perform my wedding ceremony...no thanks...I had to thank her for her time and bail...she had that wolf $@$@# on her lip...ugh...*vomits*

apart from the hobbits, they didnt have any facial hair!

That's true...cuz it was all on their feet!!! That's not a whole lot better!

good point
I think one of the types of hobbits had facial hair, but not alot. The Stoors i think it was.

Yeah....it was them! Don't listen to me...I have no idea what I'm talking about!

you wouldnt, you havnt read the books...this si what i am talking about:
Hobbits had divided into three somewhat seperate breeds; Harfoots, Stoors and Fallohides.
Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller and shorter, and they were beardless and bootless: their hands and feet were very nimble and they preferred highlands and hillsides.
The Stoors were broader, heavier in build: and their feet and hands were larger and they preferred flat lands and riversides.
The fallohides were fairer of skin and also of hair, and they were taller and slimmer than the others: they were lovers oof trees and of woodlands.

That is in the prolouge of FOTR. and somewhere else it says: They were well known to be Stoors in a large part of their blood, as indeed shown by the down that many grew on their chins.

So...what was Gollum? Stoors? And does that make Frodo and them Fallohides?

I dont know what gollum was, he is sort of a mix... and most of the Brandybucks and Tooks have a Fallohide strain in them.

Um okay...

i just sort of took that last part from the book

Peregrin, that is wonderful to bring up the differnt types of Hobbits. Why don't you tell us about them.

Smeagol was of the Stoors hobbits............

that is basically all i know! well, there is more...and at least i am keeping on topic for once!

Erika, I don't remember the differences in the Hobbits. Would you kindly explain it?

Hey...I guessed that Gollum was a Stoors!!!! Poor Smeagol...why do you cry?

Sure although I myself are not too well-learned about them.

The Hobbits are made up of 3 races Harfoots, Stoors ad Fallohides.

Fallohides
The ones of the 3 races of hobbits that can be found in middle-earth. They are less numerous that their relatives. They originally lived in the upper reaches of the Anduin River but due to the rising conflict, they migrated in the early 3rd age to the west across the misty mountains, finally settling in the Bree region. They are taller than their relatives with a slim build with some growing as tall as 4 feet. They have fair coloured skin and hair. Fallohides as a rule are skilled adventurous types much given to mix with other races (as wtinessed in the Prancing Pony scene), particularly the elves and it is these features that make them natural leaders, above their timid cousins. After 300 years of living in the Bree region. Several of them migrated once again to the land beyond the Brandywine Bridge. Gaining Land from Kind Argeleb of Arthedain, the land became known as the Shire. Fallohide families of note are the Brandybucks and the Tooks.

Harfoots
They were the smallest and most common of the 3 hobbit races. They were the first to enter Eriador over their relatives by over a century. They are of draker skin and once again the shortest, not growing over 3"5. They were also the most skilled when it came to using their hands and feet. Because of this they mostly lived in hillsides and the highlands.

Stoors
The family that Smeagol comes from. They are much heavier of the 3 and the broadest and heaviest in build. They were the last group to cross the Misty Mountains into the Shire. They preferred wet areas and settled near the riverside. These hobbits were the only ones that enjoyed water and learned to swim and even boat.

That is all I know and Peregrin had already stated a lot of this info.............. good job btw Pippin

~Erika~

Well we know that Sam wasn't a Stoor...he sunk like a rock in the first movie!

THAT comment of yours made me laugh Tear!!

Was I wrong? LIKE A ROCK!

Yes that's why Gollum calls him the fat hobbit, remember?? and where is Peregrin?? did she get scared off?

Joker, I didn't know all that about the different types of hobbits! Thanks for the great information.

She's only 13! and it's like 11:00 p.m. in England + strict parents...need I say more?

Didn't Frodo's parents die in a boating accident? What were they doing on a boat? Does Tolkein ever say?

Drogo and Primula Baggins were staying and Brandy Hall. They just decided to go out boating. It only states in LOTR that they drowned.

I just always thought that it was weird that hobbits were on a boat. Thanks.

It was a bit odd because most Hobbits do not like the water.

I know, that's why I wonder. Oh well, there isn't an answer for everything I guess.

The Brandybucks like the water. They go swimming and go out in boats.

Thanks peregr!n. I remember now. Merry, who is a Brandybuck, suggests the Ferry in the movie as a way to get to Bree. Thanks

yep. The Brandybucks built buckleberry ferry!

Makes sense now

This has probably been asked already, but what happened to the Harfoots?

Did they just exist like Hobbits like to, out of the Common Eye? Also where are the Hobbits meant to exist now, according to Tolkein? He says in the chapter 'Concerning Hobbits' that they exist, but rarely show themselves to men, and their ability to hide from them is almost magical, so do they live with men or in the peripheries of this world?

"The Brandybucks built Buckleberry Ferry!" Try saying that one ten times fast...
props Peregr!n!

The Brandybucks built Buckleberry ferry, The Brandybucks built Buckleberry ferry, The Brandybucks built Buckleberry ferry, The Brandybucks built Buckleberry ferry, The Brandybucks built Buckleberry ferry, The Brandybucks built Buckleberry ferry, The Brandybucks built Buckleberry ferry, The Brandybucks built Buckleberry ferry, The Brandybucks built Buckleberry ferry, The Brandybucks built Buckleberry ferry!
Ha ha!

Cut and paste cheater! Without that Ferry...they would have sunk like rocks!!!

im not cheating...it is more quick and efficient!
rocks

Without cut and paste...Peregr!n would have sunk like a rock! No Buckleberry Ferry for you...swim for it!

Aaaah! ill be drownded!wait...i didnt spend all that time in Buckland without learning how to swim! Aha! *swims to shore* *pokes tounge out at Tear*

The Nazgul is fooled once again! *shakes fist in anger*...hey...so in the FOTR...
after the Nazgul are fooled by the Hobbits not being in their beds...what? They just leave without incident?

Nazgul #1: Darn it...I was so sure they were here!
Nazgul #2: Oh well...wanna go get a beer?
Nazgul #3: Last one there buys!

in the book it just says that the next morning they went into the room and the beds were all messed up and stabbed and stuff.

Like I said!

Nazgul #1: Darn it...I was so sure they were here!
Nazgul #2: Oh well...wanna go get a beer?
Nazgul #3: Last one there buys!

now whose cut-and-paste-ing?!?!?!?! i wonder who had to buy the beer...

Um...the Witch King? He was fashionably late!

But he didn't have to buy the drinks, all the others bought them to suck up to the boss! Plus he beat them all at darts.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

What I don't understand is why Sauron doesn't command the Nazgul to put more effort into the fighting at the Weathertops, then he could've killed the Ringbearer, stolen the Ring, and killed the heir of Isildur (though he wouldn't have known it) all at the same time.

I'm not really surprised Sauron doesn't appear in battle; his plans suck! I bet he's rubbish at chess as well!!

Yeah, we were all out the other night and the fool decided to play poker...the idiot lost all his clothes! HAHAHAHAHA

Sauron got his a$s handed to him by a HOBBIT!!!

His eye must need contact lenses!!

Never underestimate the power of Hobbits!

Never underestimate the power of Hobbits!

Never underestimate the power of Hobbits!

I wonder if a hobbit could beat Sauron at an arm wrestle

probably! i mean even i could beat an eye at arm wrestling! does an eye have arms?
i dont know why my post above repeated itself...stupid computer...

He has only got three fingers I suppose, and I bet he gets no excercise either, stuck up in that tower all day!

poor sauron.....poor poor sauron...poor poor poor sauron...poor poor poor poor sauron...poor poor poor poor poor sauron...poor poor...ok i think you get the idea now!

That's what you get for being a Dark Lord! Plus a band of Hobbits on your tail!

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And i didnt use cut and paste...it took me a very long time to write!

Well at least your not getting distracted from the thread title. As long as you've mentioned them at least once you're alright.

Hold on... Hobbits ... That's better

Without hobbits, middle earth would be covered in darkness. Go hobbits!

Having just read the first chapter of the Fellowship, I have realised that I share my name with one of the worst Hobbits. Damn you Sandyman, and all your grumblings... You old fart.

have you only just read it or are you re-reading it?

Nope - Re reading, it's been a while though.

im re reading the whole think now. Im at The Sign Of The Prancing Pony. Barliman brews a good ale!

I just finished ROTK and are re-reading the Appendix .................. after this it's off to the Silmarillion Pippin nice to see you at the Tolkien thread btw!!

I've got to work my way up to the Silmarillion. I've been told if I can read the entire Appendices with one eye shut, I'll be able to cope!

its nice to be there finally! im getting a new copy of the Silmarillion at the weekend. And when i buy that, i will find the lost copy!

ok...is this just on my computer...or are all our signatures the same????

No its on mine aswell. Theyre all mine

Keep the old copy for reading in the bath

lol...yep i always drop my books in the bath...but it has never happened with LOTR...maybe the valar are protecting it...

every single signature on the whole board is the same! whats happened?

It has happened with me too. I have complained to one of the mods. Lets see what is going on.

Guys, this problem has been brought to the attention of the staff. Thank you.

is anyone else getting 'bgcolor="#CCCCCC" width="175" valign="top" nowrap>' written above their names too?

Marc is aware of the problem and working on it. Back to the topic of Hobbits please.

i think they got that sam represents the best qualities of hobbits...

Just to back Sherry up here...

Sandy, please don't pass out info, telling people that something such as that is okay.
It is not "okay" with us, and we are going to start sweeping and weeding all of the posts, and deleting the 'crap' that doesn't belong!

I do believe (choke choke) that Sam does represent the best of the Hobbits!
Even though we hates him...stupid fat hobbit! Because even when he had taken the ring off Frodo in ROTK, he wasn't corrupted by it...or was he? He still came looking for Frodo...rescued him in fact, and gave him back the ring!

Yeah for like two seconds (at least in the movie) why, does he for a lot longer in the book? I know he puts the ring on and cruises the female orcs locker room before finally going up to Frodo, huh?

No, he doesn't go to the female orcs' locker room. But I think he is affected for a little longer in the book. He starts to dream of himself as a great king or something.

All bow before Sam the King...I just can't see it happening!!

Thats when he thinks of 'Samwise the Brave'

Now...Smeagol the King...yesssss Precious..we could see that!!!! Bring ussss fisshhhh and it has to be rrrraaaawwww and wwwrrrrigggggglinggggg!!!!

Sooooo juicccyyyyyy swwweeeeeettt!

I think the subjects would rebel! Lock him in a tower or something!
In the Shire, the nearest the hobbits had to royalty was the Thain...

What (or who) was Thain?

The Thain was the master of the Shire-moot and captain of the Shire-muster and the Hobbitry-in-arms, but as muster and moot were only held in times of emergency, which no longer occurred, the Thainship had ceased to be more than a nominal dignity. The Took family was still, indeed, accorded a special respect, for it remained both numerous and exceedingly wealthy, and was liable to produce in every generaton stong characters of peculiar habits and even more adventurous temprement.

That is how Tolkien described it!

That's just like Dragonlace Dwarf "Thanes"!

Was the Old Took still alive in the time of FOTR, because there are many references to him in the first chapter, if I remember correctly its something about him being promiscuous!

No if I am not mistake he died in 1320 SH...........which was before the FOTR.......... right Pippin............ she's the EXPER on hobbits

Yep you are right! ooooh im an expert!

Maybe if he drank like the Gaffer...he'd still be here now? Or maybe if Bilbo hadn't been so stingy with the ring?!

And sooner or later every one in the Shire would be related to him! And then Hobbits would spring up with three arms, or sixteen fingers!

Then Frodo would've been able to not worry about losing a finger when Gollum chomps it off!

Gerontius the Old Took died 82 years before Bilbo's farewell party!

Is that where they came up with Geritol? Sorry bad joke!