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Frodo Baggins · 09-02-2002, 09:24 AM

This is from 'concerning hobbits' at the beginning of the book:

"The Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller, adn shorter, and they were beardless and bootless; their hands and feet were neat and nimble; and hey prefeered high;ands and hillsides. The Storrs were broader, heavier in build; their feet and hands were larger; and they preferred flat lands and riversides. 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 woodlands.
"The Harfooots had much to do with Dwarves in ancient times, amd 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 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 habbit of living in tunnles and holes.
"The Stoors lingered long by the banks of the Great River Anduin, and were less shy of men (there's probaly a lot of Stoorish Hobbits in Bree). They came west after the harfoots and followed the course of the Loudwater (Bruinen) southwards; and there many of them dwelt between Tharbard and the borders of Dunland before they moved north again.
"The Fallohides, the least numerous, were a northerly branch. They were more friendly with Elves then the other hobbits were (probably why Bilbo and I spend a lot of time with Elves), and had more skill in language and song than in handicrafts (Bilbo and I leared Elvish quickly, his poetry is better than mine); and of old they preferred hunting to tilling (Sam is definitely a better gardener than I). They crossed the mountains north of Rivendell and came down the River Hoarwell. In Eriador they soon mingled with the other kinds that had precedeed them, but being somewhat bolder and more adventurous, they were often found as chieftans smong calns 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 MASTERS OF BUCKLAND."

So yes the Brandybuck are Stoorish, but they are also Fallohidish.

09-02-2002, 09:24 AM	#14
Frodo Baggins Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Bag-End, Under-Hill, Hobbiton-across-the Water Posts: 606	This is from 'concerning hobbits' at the beginning of the book: "The Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller, adn shorter, and they were beardless and bootless; their hands and feet were neat and nimble; and hey prefeered high;ands and hillsides. The Storrs were broader, heavier in build; their feet and hands were larger; and they preferred flat lands and riversides. 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 woodlands. "The Harfooots had much to do with Dwarves in ancient times, amd 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 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 habbit of living in tunnles and holes. "The Stoors lingered long by the banks of the Great River Anduin, and were less shy of men (there's probaly a lot of Stoorish Hobbits in Bree). They came west after the harfoots and followed the course of the Loudwater (Bruinen) southwards; and there many of them dwelt between Tharbard and the borders of Dunland before they moved north again. "The Fallohides, the least numerous, were a northerly branch. They were more friendly with Elves then the other hobbits were (probably why Bilbo and I spend a lot of time with Elves), and had more skill in language and song than in handicrafts (Bilbo and I leared Elvish quickly, his poetry is better than mine); and of old they preferred hunting to tilling (Sam is definitely a better gardener than I). They crossed the mountains north of Rivendell and came down the River Hoarwell. In Eriador they soon mingled with the other kinds that had precedeed them, but being somewhat bolder and more adventurous, they were often found as chieftans smong calns 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 MASTERS OF BUCKLAND." So yes the Brandybuck are Stoorish, but they are also Fallohidish. __________________ "I'm your huckleberry....that's just my game."