hobbit

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  1. an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  • At any rate he was too large and heavy for a hobbit, if not quite tall enough for one of the Big People, though he made noise enough for one, slumping along with great yellow boots on his thick legs, and charging through grass and rushes like a cow going down to drink. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • But the hobbit was not seen: he was not “in the open”, for it was night and he still had his elven-cloak. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • And that therefore the hobbit was captive there, driven to look in the glass for his torment by Saruman. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • The origin of the word hobbit was by most forgotten. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) is a hobbit, a creature approximately four feet in height (the actors were digitally, flawlessly shrunk) who lives in the ever-flowering Shire's bucolic Hobbiton. —  Strange Horizons, Dec '01
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