The Encyclopedia of Arda - Hobbit-holes (original) (raw)

ALPHABETICAL RACES PLACES MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCE INTERACTIVE SHARE User guide Latest entries FAQ and e-mail Disclaimer and bibliography Awards Old and rare words Lexicon of names Excyclopedia of Arda Movie-goer's Guides: • The Fellowship of the Ring • The Two Towers • The Return of the King The Hobbit Viewer's Companions: • An Unexpected Journey • The Desolation of Smaug • The Battle of the Five Armies Tolkien links Book news Latest Chronicle Calendar Old and rare words Lexicon of names Links Random
Dates Dated back at least to III 1050, and probably long before1 Location Wherever Hobbits were found, but in the later Third Age they were located primarily in the Shire Race Hobbits Settlements Numerous, but important examples include Bag End, Brandy Hall, Great Smials and the Town Hole of Michel Delving Other names Smials Indexes: Alphabetical: H Cities and Buildings About this entry: Updated 20 April 2013 Updates planned: 1 The underground dwellings of the Little Folk Years of the Trees First Age I Second Age II Third Age III Fourth Age IV Originally the Hobbits' preferred style of dwelling, holes burrowed into hillsides, downs and banks. By the late Third Age, these had largely been replaced by buildings of wood or brick, but Hobbit-holes were still in use by the more established Hobbit families of the Shire (for example, at Bag End and Great Smials). Notes 1 III 1050 is the year in which Hobbits first appeared in the records of Men, but Hobbits themselves clearly dated back further than this, and Hobbit-holes seem to have themselves dated back into ancient Hobbit history. See also... Bag End, Bagshot Row, Bamfurlong, Battle Gardens, Belladonna Took, Better Smials, Bilbo Baggins, Bilbo Gamgee, Bungo Baggins, Bywater Pool, Cotman, Daddy Twofoot, Deepdelver, Deephallow, Eastfarthing of the Shire, [See the full list...]Gandalf, Glóin, Great Place of the Tooks, Hlothran, Hobbiton Hill, Hobbits, Holfast Gardner, Longholes Family, Lotho Sackville-Baggins, Maggot Family, May Gamgee, New Row, Puddifoot Family, S.-B.s, Sharkey’s End, Smallburrow Family, Smials, The Marish, The Pool, The Smials, Thorin and Company, Town Hole, Trahald, Underhill, Water-valley Indexes: Alphabetical: H Cities and Buildings About this entry: Updated 20 April 2013 Updates planned: 1 For acknowledgements and references, see the Disclaimer & Bibliography page. Original content © copyright Mark Fisher 1998, 2001, 2013. All rights reserved. For conditions of reuse, see the Site FAQ. Website services kindly sponsored by Discus from Axiom Software Ltd.Discus offers full translations of the entire software into selected languages with even more to come.

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SHARE User guide Latest entries FAQ and e-mail Disclaimer and bibliography Awards Old and rare words Lexicon of names Excyclopedia of Arda Movie-goer's Guides: • The Fellowship of the Ring • The Two Towers • The Return of the King The Hobbit Viewer's Companions: • An Unexpected Journey • The Desolation of Smaug • The Battle of the Five Armies Tolkien links Book news Latest Chronicle Calendar Old and rare words Lexicon of names Links Random

Dates Dated back at least to III 1050, and probably long before1 Location Wherever Hobbits were found, but in the later Third Age they were located primarily in the Shire Race Hobbits Settlements Numerous, but important examples include Bag End, Brandy Hall, Great Smials and the Town Hole of Michel Delving Other names Smials Indexes: Alphabetical: H Cities and Buildings About this entry: Updated 20 April 2013 Updates planned: 1 The underground dwellings of the Little Folk

Years of the Trees First Age I Second Age II Third Age III Fourth Age IV Originally the Hobbits' preferred style of dwelling, holes burrowed into hillsides, downs and banks. By the late Third Age, these had largely been replaced by buildings of wood or brick, but Hobbit-holes were still in use by the more established Hobbit families of the Shire (for example, at Bag End and Great Smials). Notes 1 III 1050 is the year in which Hobbits first appeared in the records of Men, but Hobbits themselves clearly dated back further than this, and Hobbit-holes seem to have themselves dated back into ancient Hobbit history. See also... Bag End, Bagshot Row, Bamfurlong, Battle Gardens, Belladonna Took, Better Smials, Bilbo Baggins, Bilbo Gamgee, Bungo Baggins, Bywater Pool, Cotman, Daddy Twofoot, Deepdelver, Deephallow, Eastfarthing of the Shire, [See the full list...]Gandalf, Glóin, Great Place of the Tooks, Hlothran, Hobbiton Hill, Hobbits, Holfast Gardner, Longholes Family, Lotho Sackville-Baggins, Maggot Family, May Gamgee, New Row, Puddifoot Family, S.-B.s, Sharkey’s End, Smallburrow Family, Smials, The Marish, The Pool, The Smials, Thorin and Company, Town Hole, Trahald, Underhill, Water-valley Indexes: Alphabetical: H Cities and Buildings About this entry: Updated 20 April 2013 Updates planned: 1 For acknowledgements and references, see the Disclaimer & Bibliography page. Original content © copyright Mark Fisher 1998, 2001, 2013. All rights reserved. For conditions of reuse, see the Site FAQ. Website services kindly sponsored by Discus from Axiom Software Ltd.Discus offers full translations of the entire software into selected languages with even more to come.