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Dates
First mentioned in records c.III 1150; merged with other Hobbit-kinds by the end of the Third Age
Race
Hobbits
Meaning
'large and strong'

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  • Updated 11 June 2006
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Stoors

The broadest and heaviest of Hobbits

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Ancestral
Hobbits
Fallohides
Harfoots
STOORS
Stoors of
Eriador
Stoors of
the Angle
Hobbits of the
late Third Age

One of the three ancient hobbit-kinds, the broadest and heaviest in build. They were the last of three branches of the hobbits to cross the Misty Mountains into Eriador.


See also...

Celepharn, Dunlendish, Fallohides, Gladden River, Harfoots, Little Folk, Shire-hobbits, Sméagol, The Angle

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