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What livestock did hobbits raise?
Cows
There is one specific mention of owning cows, which is the fictional innkeeper in the song Frodo sings at Bree, which is a song that it's implied Bilbo would frequently sing in the Shire, ...
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Is the term "Hobbit Village" ever used canonically by Tolkien?
Tolkien frequently refers to Hobbit settlements as "villages", but the phrase "Hobbit Village" has never been used by Tolkien
The first usage would be The Hobbit, referring to ...
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Did the Hobbits of the Fellowship of the Ring wear hats?
To the end of his days Bilbo could never remember how he found himself outside, without a hat, walking-stick or any money, or anything that he usually took when he went out.
We might then think that ...
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What livestock did hobbits raise?
CGCampbell's comment on the size of farm animals is very astute. Let's take a look at some real-world species that might be raised by hobbits, who we shall assume to be 63% the height of a human (...
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What livestock did hobbits raise?
There is (only?) one indirect reference to animal husbandry, in the Prologue, which states that the Shirriffs were
more concerned with the strayings of beasts than of people.
I assume this refers to ...
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What livestock did hobbits raise?
Seems unclear. Sarjeant (2001) has dug through to find as much information as they could, but they seem to be extrapolating from food in the same way that you did ... the section on "Its [The ...
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Did the Hobbits of the Fellowship of the Ring wear hats?
In support of Ethlodiad's answer, which I find pretty comprehensive, we can look for further evidence: Tolkien's own drawings of Hobbits!
I had to resort to searching the web, since I don't own any of ...
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