 | - Bilbo Baggins was the first hobbit to become famous in the world.
- There are three main kinds of hobbit: Harfoots, Fallowhides and Stoors.
- Hobbiton was one of the oldest villages in the Shire. It was built on a hill. With Bywater, it formed a single community.
- Bilbo's hobbit-hole of Bag-End was in a neighbourhood called Under-Hill. All the holes in this neighbourhood were dug into Hobbiton Hill.
- An ancestor of Bilbo was called Bandobras Took. He was a huge hobbit (4 feet, 5 inches tall) who became famous for killing the goblin chieftan Golfimbul in the Battle of Greenfields. After this battle, Bandobras was nicknamed Bullroarer Took.
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