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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc
That's it. For the Hobbits, anybody from the outside was queer. Hey, even farmer Maggot was queer for people from Hobbitton, and vice versa! I think just a person who had regular contact with Dwarves, like Bilbo, would be considered weird - but there had to be some trade between the Dwarves and Hobbits, it may not have been anything long-time established, but just those guys who would journey through the Shire would sell their goods, and there will be a few "a bit queer" Hobbits having long-time trade relations with the Dwarves, and those would make their goods available further in the Shire.
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Exactly. I would assume that it's mostly the old and rich families, like the Tooks and Brandybucks, who had such things. Maybe from days in the past, when the Shire was more open with the rest of the world, as well as at that time, when such families were known to do very weird things (for Hobbiton folk at least).