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Hobbit

Hobbits are a fictional race of people in the novels of J. R. R. Tolkien. About half average human height, Tolkien presented hobbits as a variety of humanity, or close relatives thereof. Occasionally known as halflings in Tolkien's writings, they live barefooted, and traditionally dwell in homely underground houses which have windows, built into the…

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Base of operations
The Shire, Bree
Capital
Michel Delving
Created by
J. R. R. Tolkien
First appearance
The Hobbit
Home world
Middle-earth
Language
Westron

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Hobbit

Nodes163
Edges162
Triples334
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.01227
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related to Sources · 77
Hobbit → And, Article, Artist, Author, Biography, Boston, Carpenter, Century, Christina, Christopher Tolkien, Clark Hall, Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Cultural History, Dimitra, Expanded Edition, Fimi, Flowers, From Fairies, George Allen, Guide
related to In Rhovanion · 32
Hobbit → According, Anduin, Anduin River, Big People, Concerning Hobbits, Dwarves, Elder Days, Elves, Fallohides, Gladden Fields, Gladden River, Hobbit-holes, Hobbitish, In, Many, Men, Mirkwood, Misty Mountains, Old English, Rhovanion
related to Foundation of the Shire · 29
Hobbit → After, Angmar, Archet, Arnor, Battle, Blanco, Brandywine, Bree, Bree-hill, Combe, During, Fallohide, Fornost, However, In, King, Kings, Many, Marcho, Men
related to Migration to the West · 26
Hobbit → Angle, Angles, Anglia, Anglo-Saxons, Bree-land, Bruinen, Denmark, Dunland, England, England's, Flensburg Fjord, Further, Germany, Greenwood, Hobbits, In, Mirkwood, Misty Mountains, Mitheithel, One Ring
related to Modern mediators · 24
Hobbit → Anglo-Saxons, Bag End, Bilbo's, Diamond Jubilee, Dimitra Fimi, Fimi, Gondor, In, Middle-earth, Middle-earth's, Mordor, Most, Queen Victoria, Rohan, Rome, Sam Gamgee, Shippey, Shire, The, Those
related to Moral significance · 22
Hobbit → After, Angmar, For, Frodo, Gandalf, He, Kocher, Leaf, Mount Doom, Niggle, Paul, Purgatory, Rings, Similarly, The, The Lord, The Tolkien, Thus, Tolkien, Tolkien's
related to Types · 17
Hobbit → Bilbo, Bree, By, Dwarves, Eriador, Fallohides, Frodo, Harfoot, Harfoots, Misty Mountains, Shire, Stoors, The Harfoots, The Hobbit, They, Third Age, Tolkien
related to Rabbit · 15
Hobbit → An, Aragorn's, Beorn, Bilbo, Donald O'Brien, English, Frodo's, He, Mythlore, Shippey, The, The Hobbit, Thorin, To, Tolkien
related to In English literature · 14
Hobbit → According, American, Auden, Babbitt, Bilbo's, Edward Wyke Smith's, English, One, Sinclair Lewis's, Snergs, The, The Marvellous Land, Tolkien, Tom Shippey
related to Fantasy · 13
Hobbit → Clifford, Dragons, Dungeons, Fantasy, In, Jack Vance, Peter Jackson's, Rings, Simak, Terry Brooks, The Hobbit, The Lord, Wētā Workshop

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hobbits tolkien shire bilbo lord rings frodo tolkien's isbn middle-earth like live race feet english harfoots stoors rabbit also modern

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
HobbitBase of operationsThe Shire, Bree1.00infobox
HobbitCapitalMichel Delving1.00infobox
HobbitCreated byJ. R. R. Tolkien1.00infobox
HobbitFirst appearanceThe Hobbit1.00infobox
HobbitHome worldMiddle-earth1.00infobox
HobbitLanguageWestron1.00infobox
HobbitLeadersThain; Mayor of the Shire; Master of Buckland1.00infobox
HobbitNotable membersBilbo Baggins1.00infobox
HobbitNotable membersFrodo Baggins1.00infobox
HobbitNotable membersSamwise Gamgee1.00infobox
HobbitNotable membersMerry Brandybuck1.00infobox
HobbitNotable membersPippin Took1.00infobox
HobbitNotable membersGollum1.00infobox
HobbitOther namesHalflings, Holbytlan, Periannath1.00infobox
HobbitSub-racesHarfoots, Fallohides, Stoors1.00infobox
Hobbitis aprotagonist Bilbo Baggins0.90text

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