Bree-landers
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- "The Big Folk and the Little Folk (as they called one another) were on friendly terms, minding their own affairs in their own ways, but both rightly regarding themselves as necessary parts of the Bree-folk."
- ― At the Sign of the Prancing Pony
The Bree-landers or Bree-folk were the peoples who inhabited the Bree-land, Men and Hobbits who lived peaceably side by side. These two races, identified individually as the Bree-hobbits (the Little Folk) and the Bree-men (the Big Folk).[1]
Their main settlements were four communities scattered around the Bree-hill: Bree itself, Staddle, Combe and Archet.
Culture
They were a generally friendly folk, at least until the upheavals brought about by the War of the Ring. They had some dealings with the Shire-hobbits, though the road between Bree and their 'colony' of the Shire was less travelled by the late Third Age.
Bree measured time with the Bree Calendar[2] which is obviously a Hobbitish localization of the King's Reckoning.[3]
They maintained their own dialect of Westron. The "Bree-dialect" did not use words like "history" and "geography" much[1] betraying a disinterest in lore and the outside world.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "At the Sign of the Prancing Pony"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix D, "The Calendars"
- ↑ Andreas Moehn, "The Reckoning of Time", Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages (accessed 19 April 2024)
