Bethberry said:
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Their hospitality, nay, even more, their courage and active support, says much positive to me about The Shire.
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No doubt, it is good to see friendly hobbits such as Farmer Cotton, Gaffer Gamgee, and the Cotton family. They all help out Frodo in some way, by standing up to the Black Riders, by just bringing him in and giving him some food and rest, or other reasons. This would no doubt be the good of the shire, but where there's a good there's always a bad.
The Sackville-Bagginses and Ted Sandyman quickly come to mind as the "bad" of the Shire. Also, you have the people of Hobbiton and Michel Delving thinking the Bucklanders/Marish hobbits are queer. Then the Hobbits of Buckland and The Marish thinking the Hobbiton hobbits are queer. All around you have most hobbits thinking Bilbo as queer. Bilbo is one of the few hobbits I respect since he actually got off his butt and did something. You sense a lot of dislike amongst the people in the Shire, if you think of other races there isn't so much dislike. The men of Dale and the dwarves of Erebor had a strong relationship. All the elves helped eachother out, Elrond and Galadriel bot in their own ways helped the fellowship, Celeborn helped Thranduil. Most of the Men of Gondor were united. There were some people who didn't like eachother I know some of the men were jealous of the dwarves riches, and of course the dislike between the dwarves and elves. The Hobbits seem to me as more disconnected, these people don't like these from another area, all the hobbits think down upon the ones that actually go away and help the world (Frodo, Sam, Bilbo..etc). Hobbits are just a race I can't like too much besides Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pip, the Took household, Bilbo, Farmer Cotton and Maggot.