J.R.R. Tolkien
The prologue occupied itself with a brief history of Hobbits and Hobbit characteristics. We are told about their likes, hobbies and homes. A crash course on Hobbit families.
In the prologue we learn that Hobbits and Elves use to communicate often and got along until Hobbits started to distrust them and avoided them.
For the most part they have a idilic lifestyle and enjoy the cozier things in life. They don’t seem to work but rather coexist together in an off grid style of living. One would look after their own gardens, home and personal needs.
They invited smoking the pipe, they called it a weed which was mostly picked for its fragrance before they started smoking it. Tolkien calls it a pipe-weed or leaf so we can speculate as to what the Hobbits or anyone else was smoking.
Gollum is mentioned in this prologue a throw back to The Hobbit where he encounters Bilbo and loses his ring. The odd game of riddles and eventual realization Bilbo found and too the ring. Bilbo who found the ring thinks its just luck being on it his. Working theory: the ring wants to be found.
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