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English: Diagram of Hobbit Migrations from the East, across the Misty Mountains. The three divisions of Hobbits migrated separately and not all at the same speed. They spent some time in the Angle between the Rivers Hoarwell and Loudwater before moving on to Bree and the Shire, just as the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who became the English spent time near the Angle of what is now Denmark and ...
The Hobbit calls him an elf-friend rather than an elf, one "who had both elves and heroes of the North for ancestors." [T 9] The Elvenking, king of the Mirkwood Elves. He held the dwarves captive. They were eventually freed by Bilbo. [T 10] (In The Hobbit he is only called "the Elvenking"; his name "Thranduil" is given in The Lord of the Rings ...
Hilda Bianca (portrayed by Sarah Peirse [ 5]) is a woman of Lake-Town, among the first to spot the dwarves as Bard leads them through the city. Percy (portrayed by Nick Blake) [ 5] is the gatekeeper of Lake-Town and a friend of Bard. Tilda and Sigrid (portrayed by Mary and Peggy Nesbitt respectively) are the daughters of Bard the Bowman. [ 6]
English: Sketch map of Hobbit origins, based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Prologue 'Concerning Hobbits' at the start of The Lord of the Rings.Tolkien explains that the Harfoots "long lived in the foothills of the mountains" and "moved westward early", roaming as far as Weathertop; the Stoors "lingered long by the banks of the Great River Anduin" and followed the river Loudwater southwards; and the ...
Trolls are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and feature in films and games adapted from his novels. They are portrayed as monstrously large humanoids of great strength and poor intellect. In The Hobbit, like the dwarf Alviss of Norse mythology, they must be below ground before dawn or turn to stone, whereas in The Lord of the Rings they are able to face daylight ...
Hobbit Day is a name used for September 22 in reference to its being the birthday of the hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, two fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien 's popular set of books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. According to the fictional setting, Bilbo was born in the year of 2890 and Frodo in the year of 2968 in the Third Age ...
The Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published in 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction.
The race's average life expectancy is 100 years, but some of Tolkien's main Hobbit characters live much longer: Bilbo Baggins and the Old Took are described as living to the age of 130 or beyond, though Bilbo's long lifespan owes much to his possession of the One Ring. Hobbits are considered to "come of age" on their 33rd birthday, so a 50-year ...