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Hobbit Costume Descriptions
from The Hobbit book
The most lovable characters in
Middle-earth are the relaxed and peace-loving Hobbits. Bilbo is
one of the few brave enough to venture beyond the Shire borders.
Index
A General Description of the Hobbits
- Physical description
- Hobbits have no beards.
- They are inclined to be fat in the stomach
- Have long clever brown fingers
- Good-natured faces
- They dress in bright colours (chiefly green and yellow)
- They wear no shoes, because their feet grow natural leathery soles and thick warm
brown hair like the stuff on their heads (which is curly)
- Gandalf gave the Old Took a pair of magic diamond studs. This implies rich
hobbits with some shirts that have French Cuffs.
He commonly wears a hat, carries a pocket handkerchief, pocket money, and
a walking stick
- shirt
- trousers
- suspenders/braces but no waistcoat!
- Pipe: "an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly
toes (neatly brushed)"
Only description is a "dressing gown"
- Bilbo borrows a dark-green weather-stained, hood and a dark-green cloak from
Dwalin - "they were too large for him, and he looked rather comic."
- Coat/jacket has pockets and brass buttons
- Waistcoat with brass buttons
- Trousers with belt
- Tolkien drew 18th cent knee-length knickers and often
favored green velvet
shirt
- Pocket Handkerchief
- Gandalf brought him many handkerchiefs, and his pipe and tobacco
- Bilbo ends up with Elrond's red silk hankie
- The magic elven sword, Sting
Tolkien wrote in a letter, that he had
mistakenly left out that at Elrond's, Bilbo was given some sturdy boots to
wear for the remainder of the journey!
- Bilbo wears an elven prince's small coat of maille made of silver-steel called
Mithril with a belt of pearls & crystals
- On his head head Bilbo wears
a light helm of figured leather (strengthened beneath with hoops of steel)
and studded about the brim with white gems.
- Given a parting gift from Dain, of a necklace of silver & pearls which
Bilbo
gives to the Elf King in payment for his room & board.
- Bilbo returns with 2 boxes of treasure from under the mountain: one gold & one
silver, He shares the Troll’s treasure with Gandalf. Using it to buy back
his things.
He has at least one pocket in which to keep his Precious,
the One Ring.
According to a letter by Tolkien, Gollum was
never naked (or nearly naked), but wore dark clothes.
Page created by Faye, Richard, Judy and the
The Red Backed
Book yahoo group
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