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hobbit|ˈhɒbɪt|
[See below.]
In the tales of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973): one of an imaginary people, a small variety of the human race, that gave themselves this name (meaning ‘hole-dweller’) but were called by others halflings, since they were half the height of normal men. Also attrib. and Comb. Hence ˈhobbitish a., resembling a hobbit, hobbit-like; ˈhobbitomane, a devotee of hobbits; ˈhobbitry, the cult of hobbits; hobbits collectively, or their qualities.
1937J. R. R. Tolkien Hobbit i. 11 In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. 1947C. S. Lewis in Ess. presented to C. Williams 104 The Hobbit escapes the danger of degenerating into mere plot and excitement by a very curious shift of tone. As the humour and homeliness of the early chapters, the sheer ‘Hobbitry’, dies away we pass insensibly into the world of epic. 1954J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring 7 The memoirs of the renowned Hobbits, Bilbo and Frodo. Ibid. 11 A few notes..are here collected from Hobbit-lore. Ibid. 20 The Thain was..captain of the Shire-muster and the Hobbitry-in-arms. Ibid. 46 It was a tendency of hobbit-holes to get cluttered up. 1955― Return of King 416 Hobbit is an invention. In the Westron the word used, when this people was referred to at all, was banakil ‘halfling’. But..the folk of the Shire and of Bree used the word kuduk... It seems likely that kaduk was a worn-down form of kûd-dûkan [= ‘hole-dweller’]. The latter I have translated..by holbytla [‘hole-builder’]; and hobbit provides a word that might well be a worn-down form of holbytla, if the name had occurred in our own ancient language. 1962Listener 22 Nov. 881/3 The more ambitious hobbit saga, The Lord of the Rings. Ibid., To those who are already hobbitomanes, this book is bound to be a delight. 1966New Statesman 11 Nov. 701/2 The newest and richest site of hobbitry is the American campus, where students are said to greet each other with hobbitish salutations such as ‘May your beard never grow less’. 1968Listener 20 June 790/3 Professer Tolkien was thinking of the average, ambling Englishman when he wrote about his hobbits. 1970H. Perry Human Be-In i. 20 The consistently good people in the Tolkien books are Hobbits and they have the lowliest status of all the groups of characters in the books. The hippies thought of themselves as being or becoming Hobbits; from time to time as the winter wore on, a sign would appear in the window of one of their gathering places to this effect: Do not add to the street confusion this weekend... Be good little Hobbits and stay home. |