Bilbo, the hobbit, takes a gold cup from the dragon.
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The hobbits in the film look and behave like children, albeit in adult clothing.
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The hobbits are particularly weak.
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Wales has thehobbitof 168 lbs.
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Title page shows outline of the same bowinghobbitas on the cover.
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The similarities between the races of snergs and hobbits have led to speculation that the book was a major inspiration.
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Hobbits are considered to come of age on their 33rd birthday, so a 50-year-oldhobbitwould be regarded as entering middle-age.
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The hobbit's mixed use as a unit of both volume and of weight complicated the issue, as laws applied to the two cases differently.
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This, coupled with pathological dwarfism, could possibly create ahobbit-like human.
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Other fans celebrate by simply going barefooted in honour of the hobbits, who don't wear shoes.
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The four travellers roused their fellow hobbits and led them in driving the ruffians out.
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The next morning when the hobbits woke up, the elves had gone, but they left gifts of food for the hobbits.
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I suspect that the two hobbits are accidental homophones, and am content that they are not synonymous.
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They were the smallest in stature of all hobbits.
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They were generally fair-haired and tall (for hobbits).
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The court agreed with the seller, finding that thehobbitwas impermissible because it was not a fixed integer multiple of the bushel.
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