We explain the new halflings in The Rings of Power and how they fit with Frodo

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We explain the new halflings in The Rings of Power

Amazon’s fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power introduced us to the Hobbit precursor of the harfeet in season 1. Anyone who thought that the series had already exhausted its halfling potential should count the hairs on their own feet again, because the episode “The Elder” now introduces the harfeet alongside Tom Bombadil. Warning, spoilers for season 2, episode 4 follow.

What is the Hobbit difference between staring and hare-feet in Tolkien?

In episode 4 of season 2, the storm-blown hare-footed Nori (Markella Kavenagh) and Magsie (Megan Richards) meet new acquaintances: Merimac (Gavi Singh Chera) takes her to his clan of the Stares, which is controlled by the “Gund” Gundabale (Tanya Moodie) But apart from their slightly different ear shape, the new halflings also differ from the nomadic Harfeet in another way: The Stares are sedentary and live in the caves of a canyon.

Strictly speaking, we have not yet met any “real” hobbits in The Rings of Power. Instead, the series represents the small people with the Hobbit ancestorsof which JRR Tolkien 3 types thought up:

  • Harfoots are described by Tolkien as the smallest type of hobbit, beardless and brown-skinned. As farmers, their habitat was hills and highlands, but mountain caves and tunnels.
  • Stare (Stoors) In Tolkien’s work, they are rather stocky, have curly hair, some with downy beards, and lived as fishermen on rivers such as the banks of the Anduin.
  • Fallohides were the tallest Hobbit ancestors, with light complexions and a thinner build. They lived as hunters in forests and trees.

    • Does this mean that we will also get to know the third Hobbit species, the Fallowskins, in the course of the 5 planned seasons of The Rings of Power? For Lord of the Rings fans, it is certainly interesting to know: Before his transformation into Gollum Sméagol was a starer.

    The Sûzat: How The Rings of Power explains Hobbit differences and refers to the Shire

    In Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series, the Harfeet are introduced as nomads, who are constantly on the move as a wandering people. After the encounter between the Harfeet and the Stares, Nori realizes that they have a common origin with the Stares: Apparently, under a certain Rorimas Lochner (Rorimas Burrows), the ancestor of the Harfeet tracker Sadoc (Lenny Henry) from season 1, a few pre-hobbits set out to find a home for the halflings. to find a paradisiacal new home: with gently flowing rivers full of fresh water and soft hill soil for building caves. Over time, however, the wandering hobbits forgot the reason for their journey, which has now been rediscovered.

    The target can only be the lush green hills where Bilbo, Frodo and Co. later live in Hobbiton. Even the name for it is mentioned in episode 4 of season 2: Sûzat means Shire (English: Shire) in Westron, the shared native language of Men and Hobbits. So it looks as if the two Hobbit peoples now have a new shared mission.

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