Halflings

[[File:Hobbits.jpg|thumb|Halflings]]The '''Halflings''' (S."Periannath") or '''Holbytlas''' (Rh."Hole-Dwellers") are a race closely related to [[Men]] and technically counting as [[Hildor]] (in the sense of "mortals" as unlike [[Elves]] or [[Dwarves]]).

The Halflings originally consisted of three different Tribes, the [[Fallohides]], [[Stoors]] and [[Harfoots]].

Those Halflings who moved into the [[shire]] and [[Breeland]] called themselves [[Hobbits]].Those wild tribes living outside the shire were known as "Outsiders" and "Wild Hobbits" to them.

Outsiders were known to have lived in [[Rhudaur]] and along the borders of [[Dunland]].

==MERP==

[[File:Hobbits2.jpg|thumb|The three Tribes of the Hobbits]]Although the Hobbits are thought to have awakened in [[Hildorien]] along with the larger [[Men]], the first time halflings are actually mentioned in the records is the time three of theit tribes lived in the [[Glennen]] of [[Rhovanion]].Most Halflings moved to [[Eriador]] with the rise of the [[Necromancer]] of [[Dol Guldur]] and settled in the [[Shire]].

There are colonies of Outsiders in the [[Angle]] of [[Rhudaur]] in the village [[Reedhaven]], another Group still lives in the [[Loeg Ningloron]] and is known as the [[River-Folk]].Both groups are descendants of the [[Stoors]].Other Groups of Wild Hobbits mentioned are the [[Periwott]] and small clans in [[Forochel]].

==LOTRO==

One small group of Outsiders, descending from hoarfoots, resides in the [[Ettenmoors]] of [[Rhudaur]], along river [[Hoarwell]] in a village called [[Hoarhallow]].Another Group, remnants of the stoors, lives in a village called [[Maur Tulhau]] in the [[Gloomglens]] of [[Enedhwaith]], near the border of [[Dunland]].

===Speculations===

The [[Bugans]] of [[Enedhwaith]], a tribe usually counted as goblin-kind, may be degenerated halflings, but the true origin of this race is not known.

==Fan Modules==

The ''Aegan, Karn Ord and Helcar Sael'' Module mentions a people akin to the Hobbits of the Shire known as the [[Fokirio]], eastern Halflings native to a land they call [[Banakan]].They are the descendants of Harfoots and a lost branch known as the [[Fairheads]].

==References==

*Fan module: Aegan, Karn Ord and Helcar Sael

*MERP 2017 The Shire(1995)

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