Hobbits have been living and farming in the four Farthings of the Shire for many hundreds of years, quite content to ignore and be ignored by the world of the Big Folk.
14 seconds sound clip from the The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:08:50 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Bag End, Bagshot Row, Hobbiton, Westfarthing the Shire, Middle-earth.
- The Third Age of this world.
- There and Back Again: A Hobbit's Tale. By Bilbo Baggins.
- Now where to begin? Ah, yes.
- Middle-earth being, after all, full of strange creatures beyond count.
- In fact, it has been remarked by some that Hobbits' only real passion is for food.
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