In rereading the Prologue, I found a reference to hobbits and hunting:
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...for sport killing nothing that lived...
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So hunting as a sport was not practiced among hobbits - I wonder, does that tell us that JRRT didn't approve of the English aristocracy's sport hunting? His attitude toward the use of weapons both for provision of food and for fighting is that of necessity - only when needed.
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