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THE PUBLIC MIDDLE-EARTH ENCYCLOPEDIA

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Peoples and creatures

Hobbits

Hobbits are a small people closely related to Men, best known through the inhabitants of the Shire and Bree. Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin belong to this people; they are not…