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Bree-land, which contains Bree and a few other villages, is the only place where Hobbits and Men lived side by side. It was inspired by the name of the Buckinghamshire village of Brill , meaning "hill-hill", which Tolkien visited regularly in his early years at the University of Oxford , and informed by his passion for linguistics.
The protagonists of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, lived at Bag End, [d] a luxurious smial or hobbit-burrow, dug into The Hill on the north side of the town of Hobbiton in the Westfarthing. It was the most comfortable hobbit-dwelling in the town; there were smaller burrows further down The Hill.
Hobbits are a race of Middle-earth, also known as 'halflings' on account of their short stature. They are characterized by curly hair on their heads and leathery feet with furry insteps; they do not wear shoes. Many hobbits live in the Shire as well as Bree, and they once lived in the vales of the Anduin. They are fond of an unadventurous life ...
Hobbits traditionally live in "hobbit-holes", or smials, underground homes found in hillsides, downs, and banks, though others lived in houses. [ T 9 ] It has been suggested that the soil or ground of the Shire consists of loess and that this facilitates the construction of hobbit-holes. [ 15 ]
Tolkien borrowed the Arthurian place-name Brocéliande for an early version of Beleriand. [29] 1868 illustration by Gustave Doré. Tolkien scholars including John Garth have traced many features of Middle-earth to literary sources or real-world places. Some places in Middle-earth can be more or less firmly associated with a single place in the ...
A new analysis offers clues to the mystery of this tiny oddball’s place on the human family tree. Newly discovered fossils shed light on the origins of curious ‘hobbit’ humans Skip to main ...
Bag End, Hobbiton, the comfortable underground dwelling of Bilbo and later Frodo Baggins, constructed for Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film series. Tolkien's painting The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water, watercolour, 1938 [1] showing its ideal position near the top of the Hill at Hobbiton, with less-favoured Hobbit-holes lower down.
And the newly studied fossils represent an earlier hobbit who was 2.4 inches (6.1 centimeters) shorter than the first specimen. Homo erectus was the first ancient human to migrate out of Africa ...