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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 111042" data-attributes="member: 1125">My brother has just purchased the new edition of LOTR (Book) and at the beginning it has a brief introduction to the History of the Hobbits and how they came to the Shire (its at his house so haven't got it here for reference).Anyway it states something along the lines  that prior to coming to the Shire the hobbits undertook a 'great migration/exodus' from their original homeland - and I couldn't help but get the notion that this migration took generations (rather than years) to complete with generations of hobbits born on the wagons.So enter 3e Halflings - during this migration emphasis would be placed on those risktaking, rougish types (the 3e Halfling) which could lead the clans through adversity, those born on the wagons would know no other lifestyle and thus develop a distinct culture.Only after the crossing of the Brandywine bridge into the Shire would emphasis (and leadership) pass into the hands of those more dependable stolid types who could lead the settlers to prosperity.So we have two options1. 3e Halflings are based on the Migratory Hobbits BEFORE they crossed the Brandywine BridgeOr2. after a few generations (only two are needed)when those orignal rogueish leaders had become mere legends and the stolid dependable homebodies ruled those few hobbit/halflings who retained the risktaking adventurousness of their ancestors up and left (they would have been viewed as unruly troublemakers anyway - much as Bilbo was)This group could have then travelled to parts unknown and fallen outside the scope of the events related in LOTRDid anyone else read this and get a similar notion?What am I actually talking about?</blockquote>

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