Hobbits are very small people, smaller than dwarfs but much larger than Lilliputians. The hweo of this tale was a well-to-do hobbit who somehow found himself, accompanied by a wizard and dwarfs, off on a mad journey over the edge of the wilds to wrest from Smaug the dragon his hoard of long-forgotten gold.
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