{"id":21278,"date":"2022-09-02T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T01:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1700963"},"modified":"2022-09-02T03:41:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T01:41:06","slug":"what-are-harfoots-the-rings-of-power-hobbits-and-history-explained","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/what-are-harfoots-the-rings-of-power-hobbits-and-history-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Harfoots? The Rings of Power Hobbits and history explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Olivia Garrett\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 02 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The Rings of Power, Amazon Prime Video\u2019s new prequel to the Lord of the Rings, has finally launched and with it, a whole new race of creatures has come crawling out of the ground.<\/p>\n

Much like the original trilogy of movies, this series is bound to follow Tolkien\u2019s teaching that any creature, big or small, can change the world.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, The Rings of Power has introduced the Harfoots. Played by the likes of Sir Lenny Henry and Markella Kavenagh, the Harfoots are a group of small beings who, so far, have managed to stay out of the limelight.<\/p>\n

But who exactly are they? And why do they look so similar to Frodo Baggins and the other Hobbits?<\/p>

What are Harfoots?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Harfoots are one of three breeds of Hobbits. As The Rings of Power<\/a> is set thousands of years before Frodo and the gang go on their adventures to Mordor, these creatures predate all of the halflings we know and love.<\/p>\n
Like the two other breeds, Stoors and Fallohides, the Harfoots are short creatures with large, sturdy feet. They live in holes in the countryside called smials and generally avoid all other company.<\/p>\n
As we\u2019ve seen in the series, any kind of larger folk is considered dangerous to these people.<\/p>\n
Harfoots were the most common type of Hobbit before they moved west and combined with the other breeds to form bigger societies. It is from them that the tradition of not wearing any shoes came, and it was the Harfoots who would eventually go on to colonise Frodo\u2019s home, the Shire.<\/p>\n
The history of these creatures is only really explored in the Fellowship of the Ring novel\u2019s opening prologue: \u2018Concerning Hobbits.\u2019 Otherwise, not much is known about their exploits.<\/p>\n
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