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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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Stoors

The broadest and heaviest of Hobbits

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Ancestral
Hobbits
Fallohides
Harfoots
Stoors
Stoors of
the Angle
Stoors of the
Vales of Anduin
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...

Argeleb II, Celepharn, Déagol, Dunlendish, Fallohides, Four Farthings, Gladden River, Harfoots, Holbytlan, Little Folk, Maggot Family, River Loudwater, Shire-hobbits, Sméagol, Stoors of the Angle, [See the full list...]

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