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A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds
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An old unit of volume (2 1/2 bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat).
Examples of hobbits in a Sentence
With the Lord of the Rings, the focus will largely be on Frodo and the hobbits.
Boromir has been killed attempting to save the two younger hobbits, Merry and Pippin, from evil Orcs.
He has failed and the remainder of the fellowship, knowing that Frodo and Sam at least are at liberty and chose their path, follow the path of the marauders to try to rescue the prisoner hobbits.
Hobbits live in a region of Middle Earth known as The Shire.
The outside looks a bit odd - luminous snot green is the best description - we expected to see a few hobbits inside.
Best-known for his remarkable adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, there's a lot more to filmmaker Peter Jackson than hobbits, orcs, dwarves, and wizards.
But soon, as we readers discovered, he clarified that hobbits weren't den beasts that dug out burrows to house their litters, but little people who built their homes underground.
The hobbits are saved from Saruman's minion orcs by the Ents, eldest tree spirits that take the form of walking, talking giant trees.
Turning our attention to the two hobbits who fled the fellowship, we find Frodo and Sam making their way toward the enemy's land.
Fantasy denotes the unreal and most likely the nonexistent like vampires, werewolves or hobbits and any type of unreal place or entity.
While the humans have fear for this female wood elf, the elves, dwarves and hobbits have great respect for the elves, and in particular, Galadriel.
The making of the Lord of the Rings trilogy challenged filmmakers to create a believable rendition of Middle Earth as well as finding the right Lord of the Rings cast to portray the mix of Hobbits, Elves, Wizards and more.
The Hobbits are a small people, known for their peaceful ways, closeness to the earth and rather large, hairy feet.
Gandalf the Grey was very fond of the Hobbits and charged Aragorn (the future King of Gondor) to move his Rangers into the regions around The Shire in order to protect the peaceful little people.
When the Hobbits would have bowed to Aragorn, the newly crowned King of Gondor, he refused to accept their obeisance and bowed to them instead, sending all in Gondor to their knees before the tiny Hobbits.
Lord of the Rings characters include humans, elves, hobbits, dwarves, wizards, orcs and more.
Aragorn is who Gandalf sends Frodo to and it is Aragorn who becomes the Hobbits first protector on the journey.
He terrifies Frodo, but manages to pull himself back from the abyss and dies defending the Hobbits.
This world gave birth to several races including dwarves, hobbits, elves, humans and ents complete with languages and thousands of years of rich history.
The Waikato region is an easy drive south of Auckland and marks the place in the Shire where the hobbits lived.
Of these races, the story of Lord of the Rings focuses on the Hobbits, the race of men, the Elves, Dwarves and two wizards.
Horrified at his own actions, Boromir bid them to run before he turned on the monsters approaching and died defending the escaping hobbits.
This is another of the official movie posters which features Sam and Pippin, two hobbits, standing back to back swords drawn and at the read.
Many of the other languages such as those spoken by the Hobbits, developed out of that ancient language.