Harfoots

Harfoots were one of the three breeds of hobbits in Middle-earth, along with Stoors and Fallohides.
== Description ==
They were browner of skin than other hobbits, lacking beards and wearing no footwear. They lived in holes they called smials and tunnels, a habit they maintained for the entire Third Age and beyond.
== History ==
Harfoots were the most common race of hobbit, and in their earliest known history they dwelt in the Vales of Anduin by the south of the Misty Mountains. The Gladden River approximated their southern boundary, and a woodland of the later Eagles Eyrie, near the High Pass, was their northern boundary. In unspecified ways, the Harfoots were frequently involved with the Dwarves in the early Third Age.
The Harfoots were the first to migrate westward into Arnor, and there the Dúnedain named them Periannath or halflings, as recorded in Arnorian records around TA 1050. They tended to settle down for long periods, founding villages as far from the Vales of Anduin as Weathertop.
By the 1300s of the Third Age, they had merged with the Fallohides and reached Bree, which was the westernmost home of hobbits for a long while. Described as bolder than the Harfoots, the Fallohides presided over them.
When the Shire was settled and founded centuries later, in TA 1601, its population's majority were Harfoots.
A tribe of hobbits called Harfoots are featured as living somewhere east of the Misty Mountains. The cast & crew have described them as several different tribes who have come together for mutual defense (explaining why different families look like different human races). They are a semi-nomadic people, still in the migratory period known as the "Wandering Days". When the series begins they have not yet reached the Vales of Anduin, but are still much farther east - traveling around in Rhovanion, the lands south of the forestlands of Greenwood the Great (its name before it became Mirkwood). Due to their small size, they strictly avoid being seen by other races, having become very skilled at hiding with camouflage for themselves and their village. They do not yet live in excavated holes but live out of carts, draped in camouflage nets, and ready to pick up stakes and flee on short notice if any danger enters the region they are currently in. They still live close to the land with farms and livestock, but when their current region experiences a crop failure or bad weather they will pack up their wagon-train and search for better farmland elsewhere.
When the series begins, the village of Elanor Brandyfoot, Poppy Proudfellow, and Sadoc Burrows is surprised to spot human huntsmen coming close to their land out of season. This causes Nori to speculate that the "big folk" might have been driven north by some sort of troubles in the south - though she does not know it, it is indeed due to Sauron rallying the surviving Orcs father south in what will become Mordor.