In Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings” series, there will be primordial hobbits called hairy feet. We explain to you the predecessors of Bilbo, Frodo and the other Shire people!
The Lord of the Rings – The Rings of Power: Who are the Hairfoots? (Source: Amazon Prime Video)
- “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” takes place 3000 years before the movies, but Amazon doesn’t want to do without Hobbits.
- Since the Hobbits shown in the films did not yet exist in the Second Age, we are now presented with the original hobbits: hairy feet.
- We tell you everything there is to know about the hairy feet from JRR Tolkien’s Legendarium!
The new fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is a prequel to Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy. But not in the traditional sense. Amazon Prime Video’s series is set more than 3000 years before Frodo’s adventures. While the films are set in the Third Age, The Lord of the Rings series is set in the Second Age.
We already know from trailers and pictures that we will be dealing with the hairy feet in “The Rings of Power”. They are primordial Hobbits, because the Hobbits as we know them from the movies did not exist in the Second Age.
Who are the hairy feet from The Lord of the Rings?
Tolkien didn’t write much about the history of hobbits. More specifically, he describes how hobbits are not very concerned with historical events and the world beyond their borders, so they simply don’t care what happened before they lived in the Shire.
The Hobbits of the Shire are descended primarily from the Hairfoots, which are one of three ancestral Hobbit tribes. However, over time the various bloodlines have become more and more blurred as the tribes crossed, which is why the lines cannot be drawn as well in the Third Age.
Not much is known from Tolkien’s Legendarium about the hairy feet in the Second Age. The Ur-Hobbits, all three tribes, lived in the forests near Mirkwood and the Misty Mountains. Over time, the hairy feet migrated west across the Misty Mountains, eventually settling in the Shire.
The hairfoots were completely irrelevant to the historical events of Middle-earth, so it remains exciting to see how Amazon and showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay plan to integrate the hairfoots. From the trailer, we know that Nori (Markella Kavenagh) wants to see more of the world.
It’s too early for her to pass through the Misty Mountains to settle in the Shire, as that doesn’t happen until the Third Age. But from the trailer we know that she meets a mysterious man who falls from the sky.
Who the stranger is has not yet been revealed. Fans have two theories: It’s Sauron. Or else it is one of the Istari, a magician. However, according to Tolkien’s Legendarium, the Istari did not come to Middle-earth until the Third Age. So it remains exciting here too!
On September 2nd, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 1 starts in the Amazon Prime Video news program. Before that, you can watch Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies!
| The Lord of the Rings: Evaluating the Rings of Power | |
| first airing | 12/18/2020 |
| First broadcast in Germany | 12/18/2020 |
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