Are Hobbits fat?

Are they fat? No, Hobbits don't have big feet. Mr. Proudfoot (and no doubt his family) has large feet (for a Hobbit) (and both were on the table) but no other Hobbit is described as having big feet.
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Are hobbits heavy?

You could extrapolate that a hobbit + a woman in full armor would weigh no more than a man in full armor. Hobbits are short, but so are dwarves. Yet dwarves are quite dense and weighty (though not too heavy to be tossed. Don't tell the Elf.), so height might not be a deterrent to higher weight to height ratio.
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Is Sam fat LOTR?

In both the Bakshi and Jackson LOTR movies, Sam is portrayed as the heaviest of our four main Hobbits. However, I don't remember there being any such description in the books. In fact, my mental image of Sam has always made him the fittest of the four, considering that he does all the physical labor.
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How much did a hobbit weigh?

A hobbit of oats weighed 105 pounds (48 kg), a hobbit of barley 147 pounds (67 kg), and a hobbit of wheat 168 pounds (76 kg). The figures in hobbits were then converted to standard imperial bushels for official reporting.
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Why are hobbits so hungry?

As explained by Reddit user rafael-a, Hobbits might eat as much as they do because it's a genuine physical necessity. Eating habits and needs are often defined by a species' metabolism. Smaller animals often consume more calories to make up for the physical differences between them and large creatures.
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Are hobbits plump?

Are they fat? No, Hobbits don't have big feet. Mr. Proudfoot (and no doubt his family) has large feet (for a Hobbit) (and both were on the table) but no other Hobbit is described as having big feet.
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Do hobbits have fast metabolism?

TLDR: Hobbits have very accelerated metabolisms and need a lot of food to survive.
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Can Hobbits get drunk?

12%, leading to serious motor skill and memory impairment as well as poor self-control. Two whole pints in an hour would lead to a BAC of . 17%, making this same hobbit start to feel dizzy or nauseous, with blurred vision and a possible risk of blackout.
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What race are Hobbits?

Hobbits are a race of Middle-earth, also known as 'halflings' on account of their short stature, roughly half the size of men. They are characterized by curly hair on their heads and leathery feet that have furry insteps, for which they did not wear shoes.
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What are Hobbits half of?

Usage in fantasy fiction. In The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien occasionally used the term "halfling" to describe hobbits, since they are beings that are half the height of men.
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What does Smeagol call Sam?

Sam secretly gave names to these two sides of Sméagol: the pathetic, simpering side he called 'Slinker', but the jealous, dangerous side he gave an even worse name: Stinker. As Gollum's darker side took him over completely, so Sam started to use the name 'Stinker' as just another name for the scheming creature.
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What are taters LOTR?

Gollum : What's taters, precious? What's taters, eh? Sam : *Po-tay-toes!* Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew... Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish.
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Does Samwise Gamgee have red hair?

Sam is a hobbit around 3'5 or 3'6, with fair skin, curly blond hair and green eyes. Sam dresses simple compared to Frodo, Merry and Pippin.
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Are hobbits the weakest?

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The main hobbits featured in the books and films are an exception to the rule. Most are not brave, hearty and adventurous. Hobbits are one of the weakest races in the LOTR universe.
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Why are hobbits feet so big?

This idea began with artwork done by the Brothers Hildebrant. Whenever they depicted scenes from Middle-Earth, they always drew the Hobbits as having large feet. However, technically, Tolkien himself never stated that a Hobbit's feet were large for his/her size.
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Why are hobbits small?

For the Lord of the Rings trilogy, this effect was entirely practical. Jackson used traditional forced perspective to create the illusion of one actor being smaller than the other.
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How tall is a hobbit?

'Shortish in the leg'

In a prologue to The Lord Of The Rings, he wrote that Hobbits are between two and four feet tall, the average height being three feet six inches.
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Can hobbits and humans breed?

By that standard, perhaps, hobbits are humans—just short ones. On the other hand, perhaps the existence of occasional half-elvish children is a magical phenomenon, and despite the even closer human-hobbit genetic relationship, no interbreeding is possible under natural conditions.
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Are hobbits strong?

Hobbits are special precisely because, in many ways, they are not. Hobbits do not have magical powers, or incredible strength, or the wisdom of ages. And they're fine with that. They alone, among the other races of Middle-Earth, do not seek power or control or dangerous knowledge, for good or for evil.
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Why can Legolas get drunk?

Anyway, even if the wine in the Hobbit was extremely strong Legolas should have shown some signs of intoxication after drinking that amount of beer. Elves are depicted as being resistant to alcohol not immune. It is of course possible that Legolas has become tolerant to alcohol.
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Why did The Hobbit put his head in his hands?

Ans – The hobbit put his heads in his hands as he was not used to having so many people in his house . All the dwarfs were unexpected visitors and before he could do anything about it, they had already made themselves comfortable in his house. 2.
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What does Gandalf drink?

Gandalf's preferred drink was red wine.
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How many calories does a hobbit eat?

Hobbits require a daily diet of about 1,800 calories, while elves can survive on just 1,400.
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How much can a hobbit drink?

Given the lavish drinking habits of J.R.R. Tolkien's hobbits, it's a wonder they managed to make it out of the Shire, let alone defeat a flaming disembodied eye. Their success suggests they were aware of their upper limit — the maximum number of half-pints their furry little bodies could take in before passing out.
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How many meals does the hobbit have?

After all, hobbits may be small, but they sure can eat. They take seven meals daily: breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner and supper. (Bilbo particularly loves his second breakfast.)
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