A Land to Call Their Own Discussion Thread

[piosenniel]

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Whitfoot Family - They would be Fallohides.


Parents

• 1.) Male
  
• 2.) Female

Children

• 1.) Boy or Girl
  
• 2.) Boy or Girl

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Chubb Family - They would be Harfoot.


Parents

• 1.) Male
  
• 2.) Female

Children

• 1.) Boy or Girl
  
• 2.) Boy or Girl

Elderly grandparent

• 1.) Male or Female

NOTE: Also, the families will need occupations. I will leave this up to you as players, but here is a suggestion. The Whitfoots should probably be some kind of owner of a business that has given them financial stability. The Chubbs probably work the Whitfoot’s land and are allowed to stay on it. This would give them the needed pressure to pick up and leave for the new land.

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References you need to fashion your Hobbit character:

Please note that the hobbits who are leaving Bree are very different from the hobbits during the War of the Ring and in the Fourth Age. These hobbits are more rugged individuals who are used to living among Men and having to fight to survive.

Note on playing hobbits: Tolkien gave us some personality and physical differences between the three strains of hobbits. This is from the Prologue of The Lord of Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring:

The Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller, and shorter, an they were beardless and bootless; their hands and feet were near and nimble; and they preferred highlands and hillsides…The Fallohides were fairer of skin and also of hair, and they were taller and slimmer than the others; they were lovers of trees and of woodlands.

The Harfoots had much to do with Dwarves in ancient times, and long lived in the foothills f the mountains. They moved westward early, and roamed over Eriador as far as Weathertop while the others were still in the Wilderland. They were the most normal and representative variety of Hobbit, and far the most numerous. They were the most inclined to settle in one place, and longest preserved their ancestral habit of living in tunnels and holes…

The Fallohides, the least numerous, were a northerly branch. They were more friendly with Elves than the other Hobbits were, and had more skill in language and song than in handicrafts; and of old they preferred hunting to tilling…they soon mingled with the other kinds that preceded them, but being somewhat bolder and more adventurous, they were often found as leaders or chieftains among clans of Harfoots or Stoors.