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Originally Posted by Thinlómien
Hmmm... damn my poor memory and my laziness (I'm too lazy to check), but I think that in LotR it is a few times said (not straightly, of course) that hobbits had the best relationships with the dwarves of all races of Middle-Earth. (Except bree-hobbits and bree-humans, of course.)
I have got the impression that dwarf caravans (merchants) pass through Shire and sell things there. That would make them familiar to hobbits at some degree. (In one of the first chapters of LotR it says that dwarves have talked with hobbits; given them news. It leaves the impression that it wasn't the first time hobbits had talks with dwarves.)
edit: And, dwarves had to have some trade with the hobbits, by the way. Otherwise they couldn't have pipeweed.
edit2: Unless they bought it from Bree...
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Sadly, you are mistaken, Thinlómien. The Shire-hobbits did not get along well with ANY strangers. Sure, they traded with outsiders, but they considered folk like the Dwarves as queer and outlandish. And the Dwarves did not think very highly of them either.
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...And look at the outlandish folk that visit him: dwarves coming at night,...From 'The Shadow of the Past'
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"we actually passed through the Shire, though Thorin would not stop long enough for that to be useful. Indeed I think it was annoyance with his haughty disregard of the Hobbits that first put into my head the idea of entangling him with them. As far as he was concerned they were just food-growers who happened to work the fields on either side of the Dwarves' ancestral road to the Mountains."
From 'The Quest of Erebor'
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The people that had the best relationship with the Dwarves were obviously the Men of Dale.
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Nowhere are there any men so friendly to us as the Men of Dale.
From 'Many Meetings'
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