Why "Hobbiton"?

From	Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws>
Newsgroups	rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.fan.tolkien
Subject	Why "Hobbiton"?
Date	2026-01-03 19:47 +0000
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Every municipality throughout the Suza in the times recorded
in the Red Book was a town of hobbits.

So why was the particular settlement beneath the Hill
and across the Water from Bywater known as "Hobbiton"?
It's like naming some arbitrary place in human-inhabited
lands Mantown.

My only theory is that it is the first place that Marcho
and Blanco and their followers,having entered across the
Bridge of Stonebows,decided to stop and build a settlement,
and things then fanned out from there.
(Something like Brigham Young,on reaching the 
Great Salt Lake Valley,declaring "This is the right place".)

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The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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Why "Hobbiton"? Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> - 2026-01-03 19:47 +0000
  Re: Why "Hobbiton"? Gottfried Neuner <kyonshi@wilderland.ovh> - 2026-01-03 21:52 +0100
    Re: Why "Hobbiton"? Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> - 2026-01-06 05:04 +0000
      Re: Why "Hobbiton"? Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> - 2026-01-06 08:39 -0800
        Re: Why "Hobbiton"? Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> - 2026-01-07 01:27 +0000

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