Hobbits are an unobtrusive, but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favorite haunt. They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, thought they were skillful with tools. Even in ancient days they were, as a rule, shy of 'the Big Folk', as they call us, and now they avoid us with dismay and are becoming hard to find. They are quick of hearing and sharp-eyed, and though they are inclined to be fat and do not hurry unnecessarily, they are none the less nimble and deft in their movements. They possessed from the first the art of disappearing swiftly and silently, when large fold whom they wish not to meet come blundering by; and this art they have developed until to Men it may seem magical. But Hobbits have never, in fact, studied magic of any kind, and their elusiveness is due solely to a professional skill that heredity and practice, and a close friendship with the Earth, have rendered inimitable by bigger and clumsier races.
For they are a little people, smaller than Dwarves: less stout and stocky, that is, even when they are not actually much shorter. Their height is variable, ranging between two and four feet. They dressed in bright colours, being notably fond of yellow and green; but they seldom wore shoes, since their feet had tought leathery soles and were clad in a thick curling hair, much like the hair on their heads, which was commonly brown. They had long and skillful fingers and could make many useful and comely things. Many went into the class profession of Thief, and historically their most famous Hobbit was a burglar of much renown.
---Taken from "Concerning Hobbits," by J.R.R. Tolkien, Prologue to "Fellowship of the Ring," available by Bantum Books.
| STR: | 18(50) |
| INT: | 18 |
| WIS: | 18 |
| DEX: | 21 |
| CON: | 17 |