![]() ![]() In The Hobbit, hobbits live together in a small town called Hobbiton, which in The Lord of the Rings is identified as being part of a larger rural region called the Shire, the homeland of the hobbits in the northwest of Middle-earth. In its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, the hobbits Frodo Baggins, Sam Gamgee, Pippin Took, and Merry Brandybuck are primary characters who all play key roles in fighting to save their world (" Middle-earth") from evil. Hobbits first appeared in the 1937 children's novel The Hobbit, whose titular hobbit is the protagonist Bilbo Baggins, who is thrown into an unexpected adventure involving a dragon. Their feet have naturally tough leathery soles (so they do not need shoes) and are covered on top with curly hair. Occasionally known as halflings in Tolkien's writings, they live barefooted, and traditionally dwell in homely underground houses which have windows, built into the sides of hills, though others live in houses. ![]() About half average human height, Tolkien presented hobbits as a variety of humanity, or close relatives thereof. For me personally, I just hope he ends up in the pub.Hobbits are a fictional race of people in the novels of J. Maybe he won’t, and we’ll be disappointed by the departure from the established lore. He may betray the Harfoots and head south to reveal himself as Annatar as The Rings of Power fills in the gaps of the Legendarium. If the showrunners decide that the poems began when Harfoots stumbled upon Sauron’s wretched body, then I’d be more than happy. Common presumption in the community is that the poems refer to Tilion, a Maia who guided the moon, but this is never explicitly confirmed by Tolkien. Neither poem gives a hint at who the man in the moon actually is, but that doesn’t matter to their stories. Both were distorted over time, and that’s why we ended up with the drunken tales in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Perhaps Lenny Henry’s Harfoots wrote the songs after finding The Stranger, and Gondorians had their own tale too, based on the approximate geography of where they thought the meteor would land. Tolkien wrote these tales as folklore, songs passed from generation to generation. ![]() Meteor Man may not go to the pub in The Rings of Power, and he may not follow the story of The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon either (where he also ends up at an inn, but the wine is not to his satisfaction). This doesn’t explain the fisherman that brought him to shore, but what do songs and poems do when passed through generations? They get exaggerated and expanded upon as each storyteller adds their own flair to the tale. It’s worth noting that the Bay of Belfalas was considerably smaller at the beginning of the Second Age, so the spot where the meteor landed could be in the area of the Third Age Bay. The show has clearly changed the landing spot of Meteor Man from the Bay of Belfalas to somewhere more Harfoot-friendly, but that’s a minor alteration compared to adding a whole new character, as I previously thought it had done. From Elves to Ents (and potentially Entwives?), everyone sees the meteor, so it’s understandable that Men would see it too, despite that not being shown in the teaser. But how does this work if it’s Harfoots who discover Meteor Man?įor starters, the latest Rings of Power teaser shows everyone watching the meteor fly across the sky. The poem is said to be sung by Gondorians, and despite it talking about the man in the moon’s hubris and envy, could have originated from tales of The Stranger falling out of the sky.
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