


Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, as it was four Hobbits - Frodo, Sam, Pippin, and Merry - along with a fellowship of heroes from the races of Man, Elf, and Dwarf, who embarked on the fateful quest to bring an end to the tyranny of Sauron and Mordor once and for all in The Lord of the Rings books and movies. During the Third Age of The Lord of the Rings timeline, while the Elves, Men, Orcs, Dwarves, and Wizards fight over what to do about Mordor and the One Ring, the little jolly (and lazy) halflings known as Hobbits are mostly back in the Shire, chowing down on massive wheels of cheese, drinking ale, and smoking the finest weed they can get their hands on. Tolkien‘s books and the films of Peter Jackson already showed, not all of the races of Middle-earth are preoccupied with dark lords, wars, or magical rings. This Lord of the Rings article contains spoilers for The Rings of Power.Īs J.R.R.
