Now Bilbo finds himself having to escape not only the enemy Orcs, but Gollum as well. Bilbo keeps the ring with him throughout his journey and finds it very useful on the remainder of his quest. In the first part of the trilogy, entitled The Fellowship of the Ring, the Baggins family continues to play a major role, this time with the young Hobbit Frodo Baggins, cousin of Bilbo, taking the lead in the story. With the ring comes a great quest that Frodo must now complete. Throughout the other two parts of the trilogy, The Two Towers and Return of the King, Frodo proceeds with his difficult quest, and is accompanied by his fellow Hobbits and good friends, Merry, Pippen, and Sam.
All of the Hobbits display great friendship, loyalty, and extreme bravery in their devotion to help Frodo complete his assigned duty. The reason this magical ring must be destroyed is to keep Sauron, the Dark Lord, from coming into complete power by possessing all of the magical rings. The fate of Middle Earth rests solely on these small Hobbits, who leave home merely as little people, and return home respected and treated as heroes.
The Three Different Breeds of Hobbits The Harfoots, who lived in holes, are the type of Hobbits generally referred to in the popular Tolkein novel The Hobbit, and are the most numerous of the Hobbit breeds.
Visited 1, times, 1 visits today. Can Hobbits get lung cancer? In The Lord of the Rings films, the Hobbits are frequently referred to as "Halflings" by people who know nothing about their society. Hobbits find the term "Halfling" to be quite rude. They believe the word implies that they are "half" of something else. True, they may actually appear to be half the height of a normal Man, but they think it is offensive to point that out. Plus, couldn't it just be that Men are double the height of a Hobbit?
Why shouldn't Men, therefore, be called "Doublings" or some such nonsense like that? They don't go on adventures often, but given their skill sets, they should really consider going out more. Hobbits are notoriously quiet folk. They are able to move fairly silently when they want to. This makes them perfect for jobs such as a Burglar or a Thief. It is also why we can't find too many Hobbits these days. They just sneak past whenever they hear us Big Folk coming.
Hobbits are small. That is stating the obvious. But how small are they? A Hobbit can be anywhere from two to four feet tall. Maybe they really should call themselves "Halflings. Their small size helps them sneak around places and through battlefields. Because they're so diminutive, no one thinks to look for them. If they had been a tad taller, they might have accidentally gotten targeted by the Rohirrim. Of the three kinds of Hobbits we mentioned earlier, the Stoors were the ones who liked to spend time by river fronts.
Stoors were also the only kind of Hobbit that could grow facial hair. The Hobbits we have seen in the films have not a trace of facial hair, not even a mustache. But rest assured, there are a very small amount of Hobbits that can sprout themselves a beard.
Whichever Hobbits can grow facial hair owe this to a lineage tracing back to the Stoors. In most of the Western world, the age that most people consider to be the beginning of adulthood is eighteen. When a young person reaches that age, they are allowed to perform certain adult activities. With Hobbits, a Hobbit is considered to have come of age when they become years old.
That allows for a nice long time before Hobbits have to be considered adults. Honestly, given how immature college-age kids can act in the real world, maybe the age of adulthood should be 33 here, too. Hobbits have a kind climate up at the Shire. They live in the mild temperature of the North of Middle-Earth. As such, their skin color ranges from nut-brown to white.
The time at which a young Hobbit "comes of age" is thirty-three. Thus, a fifty-year-old Hobbit would only look 26—30 years by human standards. Most Hobbits enjoyed farming, food, ales, parties and the giving and receiving of presents. They were usually friendly and happy-go-lucky, although they were often shy of Men. Hobbits preferred a quiet, normal, and peaceful life, which is why Gandalf was humorouly frowned upon sometimes, because he brought adventure to Bilbo.
Many of them had seen him returning from his long journey to the Lonely Mountain the journey told of in The Hobbit with his steed laden with great chests of gold. They also have developed a keen taste in the smoking of Pipe-weed and blowing smoke rings. This was first started by Tobold Hornblower of Longbottom in the Southfarthing.
They were very ignorant and knew little of the happenings of the world. They dwelt in Hobbit-holes known also as "Smials". Hobbits, particularly those of the Shire are very insular and suspicious of other people from other places and anything that disturbs the peace. Hobbits refer to people outside the Shire as Outsiders , being a very broad term, were simply those foreign to any region. The Hobbits had a distinct calendar.
Every year started on a Saturday and ended on a Friday, with each of the twelve months consisting of thirty days. Every fourth year there was an extra Litheday.
Some names of families and locations originated from variants and contractions of Mannish words e. Holman Cotton's name simply meaning "hole-man" , if not simply individual or contractions of English words e. Bracegirdle , Cotton , Daisy , Bowman , Ruby. The Stoors , however, who in early times did not dwell in the Shire, are said to have probably adopted speech similar to Dunlendish.
The only occurrences of Hobbits speaking in other tongues as if naturally are the times in The Return of the King when Frodo and Sam find themselves invoking Elbereth out loud, or when Frodo cries the Quenya phrase Aiya elenion ancalima! Hobbits were fond of an unadventurous bucolic life of farming, eating, and socializing. According to Jackson's trilogy, they enjoyed seven meals a day, when they could get them: breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner, and, later in the evening, supper.
In the book, however, supper is simply an alternative name for dinner; Bilbo only served three official meals at his Birthday Party: lunch, tea, and dinner or supper. They like simple food such as bread, meat, potatoes, and cheese, and also like to drink ale, often in inns — such as the English country folk, who were Tolkien's inspiration. They have also been known to have a particular fondness for cake.
Hobbits also enjoy smoking tobacco, which they refer to as " pipe-weed ", out of long wooden pipes. This can be attributed to their love of gardening and herb-lore as exemplified by Sam Gamgee.
Another interesting fact is that hobbits have an inordinate liking of mushrooms, prizing them above many other foods. A common pursuit for younger hobbits is mushroom-hunting, and Frodo Baggins said he had stolen Farmer Maggot 's mushrooms on at least one occasion. Some Hobbits live in hobbit-holes, known as "smials" which resembled the characteristics of the original places where they dwelt underground.
Unsurprisingly, then, when Bilbo first sees him, he observes a large man with a beard and arms and legs that bulge with muscles. The film takes some liberties with his appearance, and at times he looks more like a badger than a bear. Fan art here by Ninni-V , visit them on Deviantart! When Bilbo and his companions are taken captive by the goblins in the Misty Mountains, they are taken before the malicious creature known as the Great Goblin.
In this instance, Tolkien specifies that he had an unusually large head, meaning that he would have been even more grotesque than the regular goblins. His appearance isn't much different in the films, although interestingly Barry Humphries is the man behind the mask - perhaps better known for his Dame Edna Everage character.
The fan art used for comparison here is by Sceith-A. Though he is given no name in the text of The Hobbit, in later writings it was specified that the Elvenking in Mirkwood is in fact Thranduil, the father of the heroic Legolas. He also wears different crowns depending on what the season happens to be. When they first see him, he is wearing a crown of berries and red leaves.
Again, the filmmakers had a lot of flexibility, but Lee Pace does a fine job capturing the king's hauteur and icy Elven beauty.
Fan art by Athena-chan - check them out! Of all of the characters that appear in The Hobbit, arguably none leaves as much of an impression as Gollum, the miserable wretch that Bilbo encounters at the heart of the Misty Mountains.
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