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   From: le@top.put.com   
      
   In alt.fan.tolkien Michael F. Stemper  wrote:   
   > Due to the fact that Sm?agol and D?agol lived on the banks of the   
   > Anduin, it is likely that they were Stoors.   
      
   Or proto-Stoors..."akin to the fathers of the fathers of the   
   Stoors",as Gandalf put it.   
      
   > Were Bilbo and Frodo Harfoots? I thought that this was the case,   
   > but reading "Concerning Hobbits" several times doesn't give me   
   > any indication of this. Can anybody point me at some textev in   
   > tLotR for Stoor/Harfoot/Fallohide?   
   >   
      
   My impression is that Tolkien represented the division into   
   Stoor/Harfoot/Fallohide as something from centuries before the   
   War of the Ring that had been progressively disappearing through   
   intermixture since before the Shire was settled.   
      
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