There are no family
trees for all these mentioned
races of Hobbits. By the way,
hobbit lore is an obscure branch of knowledge even for the greatest
loremasters. Still I will give you all the information that I have with me.
Fallohides
The Fallohides were fair of skin and hair, and none of them ever grew a beard. They were great lovers of the trees and
forests, and skilled hunters. Many of them were friends with the
Elves, and because of this they were more learned than the other
Hobbits. They were the first to later learn
Westron, and the only ones to preserve some of their old history. They learned
Westron from the
Men of
Arnor, and it was they who first learned writing.
After the
Harfoots had migrated westward in the years following
1050 of the
Third Age, the Fallohides followed them around
TA 1150. Unlike the Harfoots they crossed far north of
Rivendell, and from there later met up with the Harfoots.
The Fallohides were more bold and adventurous than the Harfoots, and many of them became leaders of the
Harfoot villages. It was probably under
Fallohide rule that the Harfoots migrated westward beyond
Weathertop and reached
Bree.
In
TA 1601 two Fallohide brothers,
Marcho and
Blanco, by permission of the King in
Fornost (
Argeleb II) crossed the river
Baranduin (Brandywine) and colonized
the Shire.
After this, the Fallohides mixed more and more with the Harfoots and later the
Stoors, until the three Hobbit
races became one.
The influential
Took clan had distinct Fallohide traces both in appearance and character, as did the
Oldbuck and later
Brandybuck clan. Both
Bilbo Baggins and
Frodo Baggins were part Fallohide, due to their Took mothers.
Other famous Fallohides included Bandobras
Bullroarer Took, who slew an
Orc leader, and
Peregrin Took as son of the
Thain was a Fallohide.
Harfoots
They were browner of skin than the other Hobbits, had no beards, and did not wear any footwear. They lived in holes they called
Smials, a habit which they long preserved, and were on very friendly terms with the
Dwarves, who travelled through the High Pass on the Great Road.
The Harfoots were the first to migrate westward into
Arnor, and it was to them that the name
Periannath or
Halflings was first applied by the
Dúnedain when they were first recorded in Arnorian records around
TA 1050 of the
Third Age. They tended to settle down for long times, and founded numerous villages as far as
Weathertop.
By the 1300s of
the Third Age they had reached
Bree, which long was the most western village of any Hobbits.
The Harfoots were joined between TA 1150 and
TA 1300 by the
Fallohides and some
Stoors. The Harfoots took Fallohides, a bolder
race, as their leaders.
When
The Shire was colonized in
TA 1601 most of its people were Harfoots.
Stoors
They were heavier and broader in build than the other Hobbits, and had large hands and feet. Among the Hobbits, the Stoors most resembled
Men and were most friendly to them. Stoors were the only Hobbits who normally grew facial hair. Stoorish characteristics and appearance remained among the Hobbits of the
Eastfarthing,
Buckland (such as the
Brandybucks) and the
Bree-hobbits.The Stoors also had their
own dialect of
Hobbitish, owing to the fact that they spent some time in
Dunland and adopted many strange words and names which they took to
the Shire, and retained even until the late Third Age.
Smeagol was a
Stoor hobbit.
