Shire-hobbits

Shire-hobbits
   The Halflings of the Shire.
   The Hobbits of the Shire; the descendants and followers of Marcho and Blanco, the two Bree-hobbits who founded the Shire. Among the Shirehobbits were representatives of each of the three main types of Hobbit, the Stoors, Harfoots and Fallohides.
   Shire-hobbits were considered the most rustic and pastoral of their kind, even by other Hobbits (such as those of Bree or Buckland). The most important family among the Shire-hobbits were the Tooks of the Westfarthing, who had held the hereditary, and largely honorary, title of Thain from III 2340.

J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth glossary. . 2003.

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