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Hobbits are, first and foremost, a people that loves peace and quiet. They till the earth, smoke pipeweed and just go on with their merry lives, with little or no concern for the outside world.
Hobbits love food, pipeweed and good ale, and do not hurry uncesseraily - as a result they can be rather fat. However, they are still nimble and deft in their movements, and allthough some might find them somewhat slow of mind, they are quick of hearing and sharp-eyed. They are also very adept at disappearing silently and quickly, which to some Men might seem as magic. However, Hobbits have never studied magic of any kind - their elusiveness is a professional skill, gained through heritage and practice.
They are skilled with farming tools, and such machines as watermills, looms and forgebellows, but do not care for industry and machinery beyond this.
They are shy of what they call the Big Folk, and keep mostly to themselves.

Hobbits can be divided into several cultures:

• Hobbits of Bree / Bree-hobbits / Bree-landers
• Bucklanders
• Hobbits of the Shire / Shire-folk / Shire-hobbits

Of all these, most is known of the Shire-folk, and so the rest of this will mostly concern them.

Clotheswise, Hobbits dress in bright colours, and have a particular love of green and yellow, probably representing growing things and the sun. They seldom wear shoes, as their feet have tough leathery soles and are clad in thick curling hair, like the hair on their heads (most commonly brown).
Hobbits are small in size, when measured against humans. Their height is variable, but usually between two and four feet - they usually do not reach beyond three feet. The Red Book tells of Bandobras "Bullroarer" Took, who was four feet five, big enough to ride a horse. He is only surpassed by Peregrin Took and Meriadoc Brandybuck, who gained their height from drinking copious amounts of Ent-draught.
The Hobbits' fingers are long and skilful, and as such they excel in most crafts - except perhaps shoemaking, which isn't very useful among their people.
A hobbits' face would not be characterized as beautiful, but rather as good-natured: broad, bright-eyed and red-cheeked, with mouths always ready for laughing, eating and drinking.

Food is something any hobbit cherishes above most other things. Traditionally they eat six-seven meals a day: breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, luncheon, tea, dinner and supper. They would not pass up a snack in between meals either. In general, Hobbits favour simple food such as bread, meat, potatoes and cheese. They have a passion for mushrooms, and will go to great lengths to aquire some. The preferred drink is ale and/or beer, often at a local inn such as the Green Dragon.
Following a meal, or at any given time really, a hobbit will also greatly enjoy smoking pipeweed, something which is closely related to their love of herb-lore and gardening.

'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit'. Thus begins J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit", and such is the traditional habitat of a hobbit. Hobbits live in hobbit-holes, commonly found in hillsides, downs and banks. In the Third Age, however, most hobbit-holes were replaced by houses made of brick or wood, but a few hobbit-holes remains in use - such as Bag End. In the Shire, in Bilbo's days, it was custom that only the richest and the poorest hobbit of the area lived in a hobbit-hole. Hobbit housing has round doors and windows, something which can be traced back to when they dug their hobbit-holes, and has been retained in their later architectural endevours.

Hobbits love a good party. They celebrate birthdays, for one, and have a tradition of giving gifts on their birthdays rather than receiving them. These presents are often given as presents many times over, and are referred to as mathom - a term used for old and assorted objects that no one had a use for, but would not throw away. Some of these would be stored in a mathom-house, a museum.

MORE TO COME!