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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 5909173" data-attributes="member: 6688049">I like your idea. And your reply inspired me to look up the traits of the Middle-earth equivalents: D&D Hairfoot < Middle-earth HarfootD&D Stout < Middle-earth StoorD&D Tallfellow < Middle-earth Fallohide From the Prologue to the LotR: "Before the crossing of the mountains the Hobbits had already become divided into three somewhat different breeds: Harfoots, Stoors, and Fallohides." Harfoots:"The Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller, and shorter, and they were beardless and bootless; their hands and feet were neat and nimble; and they preferred highlands and hillsides." "The Harfoots had much to do with Dwarves in ancient times, and long lived in the foothills of the mountains. They moved westward early, and roamed over Eriador as far as Weathertop while the others were still in the Wilderland. They were the most normal and representative variety of Hobbit, and far the most numerous. They were the most inclined to settle in one place, and longest preserved their ancestral habit of living in tunnels and holes." Stoors:"The Stoors were broader, heavier in build; their feet and hands were larger, and they preferred flat lands and riversides." "The Stoors lingered long by the banks of the Great River Anduin, and were less shy of Men. They came west after the Harfoots and followed the course of the Loudwater southwards; and there many of them long dwelt between Tharbad and the borders of Dunland before they moved north again." Fallohides:"The Fallohides were fairer of skin and also of hair, and they were taller and slimmer than the others; they were lovers of trees and of woodlands." "The Fallohides, the least numerous, were a northerly branch. They were more friendly with Elves than the other Hobbits were, and had more skill in language and song than in handicrafts; and of old they preferred hunting to tilling. They crossed the mountains north of Rivendell and came down the River Hoarwell. In Eriador they soon mingled with the other kinds that had preceded them, but being somewhat bolder and more adventurous, they were often found as leaders or chieftains among clans of Harfoots or Stoors. Even in Bilbo’s time the strong Fallohidish strain could still be noted among the greater families, such as the Tooks and the Masters of Buckland."One curious thing that happened in the translation from Tolkien to D&D is that in D&D, the Stouts became the "Dwarf-friends" instead of the Hairfoots. The Middle-earth Stoors are the "Man-friends" and the Middle-earth Harfoots are the "Dwarf-friends". And understandably, D&D dropped the implication that the three Halfling strains are equivalent to the Real World Angles (Harfoots), Saxons (Northern Stoors), Jutes (Fallohides), and Welsh (Southern Stoors).</blockquote>

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