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Dates
Entered Eriador in III 1050; merged with other Hobbit-kinds by the end of the Third Age
Race
Meaning
From Old English hær-fōt, 'hairy-footed'

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Harfoots

Most common of the three ancient Hobbit-strains

Map of the migration of the Harfoots
Ancestral Hobbits
Fallohides
Harfoots
Stoors
Hobbits of the
later Third Age

The smallest and most common of the three original Hobbit-strains, who entered Eriador a century before the Fallohides or Stoors.


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