How to Host a Hobbit Birthday

First of all, a happy almost birthday to you!  I wrote a general post on hobbit birthdays a while ago, but here’s some more specific guidelines for the soon-to-be-byrding: Don’t expect to receive many presents. According to hobbit tradition, a byrding (for those who don’t know, this is the word for a hobbit on their…

And here’s the third part of my Awesome Ladies of the Shire series, the great matriarchs + Elanor Gardner (plus one last family tree.) This is my second (much smaller) contribution to Legendarium Ladies April – just looking at some of my favorite hobbit lasses. I’ll have the whole series together and ready for download in a few days!

And though it’s not ready for download yet, my first LLA series (”The Women Who Shaped Middle Earth”) can be read in it’s rough-draft form here. And, as always, if you think I’ve missed something (or someone), feel free to send me a message!

Here’s the second part of my Awesome Ladies of the Shire series, Pippin’s sisters (plus another simplified family tree, for context.) This is my second (much smaller) contribution to Legendarium Ladies April – just looking at some of my favorite hobbit lasses. The next (and final) section will be about some of the Shire’s great matriarchs.

Though it’s not ready for download yet, my first LLA series (”The Women Who Shaped Middle Earth”) can be read in it’s rough-draft form here. And, as always, if you think I’ve missed something (or someone), feel free to send me a message!

Okay, here’s the first part of my Awesome Ladies of the Shire series, the three remarkable daughters of the Old Took (plus a super simplified family tree, for context.) This is my second (much smaller) contribution to Legendarium Ladies April – just looking at some of my favorite hobbit lasses. The next section will be about Pippin’s three sisters, and the last section will be a look at some of the Shire’s great matriarchs.

Though it’s not ready for download yet, my first LLA series (”The Women Who Shaped Middle Earth”) can be read in it’s rough-draft form here. And, as always, if you think I’ve missed something (or someone), feel free to send me a message!

“They had not heard of the king”

Hey read-alonger! Sorry I didn’t get to this last week, when it probably would have been more interesting for you But anyway, I can answer this! In The Hobbit, the dwarves see a campfire in the distance and are trying to decide whether it’s a good idea to approach it or not. When describing the…

Hobbit and Construction

Well, in The Hobbit we’re told that Bag End’s hallway had “paneled walls.” But, it’s worth noting that not only was Bag End basically the most luxurious home in the Shire, but The Hobbit also contains several anachronisms, so you might want to take this with a grain of salt. Tolkien talks a bit about hobbit…

Disappearing from the Shire

In the book it’s a bit more planned (on Merry and Pippin’s part, though Frodo wasn’t really aware they meant to accompany him until the last minute), but the basis of your question stands – as far as the rest of the Shire was concerned, the four hobbits just disappeared one day and never returned.…

I could be making this up, but is it true in Bree that hobbits and Men would marry each other?

If that ever happened, Tolkien didn’t write about it. All he says on the relationship between the two groups in Bree was: The Big Folk and the Little Folk (as they called one another) were on friendly terms, minding their own affairs in their own ways, but both rightly regarding themselves as necessary parts of…

Gandalf and Hobbit Adventurers

The first chapter of The Hobbit is filled with some really excellent descriptions of hobbits and Shire-life. And more than any other part of Tolkien’s writing, it is written very strictly from a hobbit point of view. So anything said about Gandalf is written only with the worldly knowledge (or lack thereof) of the average…

Sam Gamgee’s Brown Hands

There are a couple places in the book that describe Sam as having darker skin. I’ll just list them below, and then move on to commentary: “Sam sat propped against the stone, his head dropping sideways and his breathing heavy. In his lap lay Frodo’s head, drowned deep in sleep; upon his white forehead lay one of…