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to be a 'corruption' or shortening of older holbytla 'hole
dweller'.(10) This was the name by which they were known (to
legend) in Rohan, whose people still spoke a tongue very like
the most ancient form of the Hobbit language. Both peoples
originally came from the lands of the upper Anduin.(11)

The date '1347?' of the Battle of Greenfields (12) suggests that it was here
that that event re-entered from The Hobbit (see IX.119); later my
father changed it here to 1147, while in The Scouring of the Shire it
was first given as 1137 (IX.101 and note 31).
Returning briefly to the manuscript P 5, I have not yet mentioned
that in this text, as originally written, the old passage in P 1 concern-
ing the Hobbits of the Marish ('the hobbit-breed was not quite
pure', 'no pure-bred hobbit had a beard', VI.312), still preserved in the
revision of P 2, was now altered:

The Hobbits of that quarter, the Eastfarthing, were rather
large and heavy-legged; and they wore dwarf-boots in muddy
weather. But they were Stoors in the most of their blood, as was
shown by the down that some grew on their chins. However, the
matter of these breeds and the Shire-lore about them we must
leave aside for the moment.

In the published Prologue this passage (apart of course from the last
sentence) comes after the account of the 'three breeds' (FR p. 12), in
which the Stoors had been introduced. But a further new passage was
added on a separate page of the P 5 manuscript, corresponding to that
in FR pp. 11 - 13 from 'Of their original home the Hobbits in Bilbo's
time preserved no knowledge' to '... such as the Tooks and the
Masters of Buckland'; and the account here of the Harfoots, Stoors
and Fallohides was derived with little change from the earliest version
of Appendix F, in which (p. 55, note 10) the idea of the 'three breeds'
is seen in its actual emergence. The text in P 5 is all but identical to



that in the final form, lacking only the statement that many of the
Stoors 'long dwelt between Tharbad and the borders of Dunland
before they moved north again', and still placing the Stoors before the
Harfoots (see ibid.).
The word smial(s) first occurs, in the texts of the Prologue, in P 5.
Its first occurrence in the texts of The Lord of the Rings is in The
Scouring of the Shire: see IX.87 and note 16 (where I omitted to
mention that in Pippin's reference to 'the Great Place of the Tooks
away back in the Smials at Tuckborough' in the chapter Treebeard
(TT p. 64) the words 'the Smials at' were a late addition to the type-
script of the chapter).

A further manuscript, P 6, brought the Prologue very close to the
form that it had in the First Edition of The Lord of the Rings.(13) This