What are Stoor hobbits?

The Stoors were one of the three breeds of Hobbits. In their earliest recorded history the Stoors, like the other Hobbits, lived in the Vales of Anduin. They were a riverside people that dwelt in the Gladden Fields, and were fishermen.
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What are the three types of hobbits?

The hobbits are described as being of three types, Harfoots, Fallohides, and Stoors, all deriving from a region to the east of the Shire, in particular the Angle between two rivers, and migrating to the Shire at different times.
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Is Frodo a Stoor Hobbit?

Bilbo and Frodo - Harfoot, with a strong Fallohidish strain. Me (Merry) - A fallohidish Stoor.
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Is Gollum a Stoor?

Gollum was a Stoor Hobbit of the River-folk who lived near the Gladden Fields. In The Lord of the Rings it is stated that he was originally known as Sméagol, corrupted by the One Ring, and later named Gollum after his habit of making "a horrible swallowing noise in his throat".
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Are Riverfolk hobbits?

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The River Folk was a name for a community of Hobbits who lived in the Wilderland - the Hobbits' original home - even after most of their kin left west (eventually reaching Bree and The Shire) to flee the threat of Angmar.
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What's the difference between a Hobbit and a Stoor Hobbit?

They were heavier and broader in build than the other Hobbits, and had large hands and feet. Among the Hobbits, the Stoors most resembled Men and were most friendly to them. Stoors were the only Hobbits who normally grew facial hair.
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How did Frodo know Gollum's name?

In the movies, when Frodo first spies Gollum stalking them in the Misty Mountains (Moria) he informs Gandalf who tells him a little of Gollum's history.
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What type of hobbit was Sméagol?

Sméagol was a Hobbit of riverland Stoor-kind who lived on the banks of the Anduin in the later Third Age. Sméagol belonged to the reputable family of the stern and wise Matriarch. He spent the early years of his life living with his extended family during the Watchful Peace, when Sauron was in the East.
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What type of hobbit is Frodo?

Both Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins were part Fallohide, due to their Took and Brandybuck mothers respectively. Other famous Fallohides included Bandobras Bullroarer Took, who slew an Orc leader, and Peregrin Took.
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Are there black hobbits?

No. There is no indication of black hobbits in the Tolkien Legendarium.
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What happened to the Stoor hobbits?

The Stoors originally dwelt in the southern vales of the river Anduin. During the hobbits' wandering days, after the Harfoots had migrated westward in TA 1050, and the Fallohides later followed them, the Stoors long remained back in the vale of Anduin, but between TA 1150 and 1300 they too migrated west into Eriador.
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How did Sméagol become Gollum?

Living underground without contact with anyone or without sunlight, Sméagol became sickly. He would produce a gurgling cough almost like he was choking. The sound of the cough was what led to him being known as Gollum.
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Are hobbits and Halflings the same?

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. For instance, when the hobbit Pippin Took appears in a royal guard's uniform in Minas Tirith, the people of that city call him the "Prince of Halflings".
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Why are hobbits feet so hairy?

I would say that the reason hobbits had hairy feet was likely a result of androgenic hormone levels higher than those present in humans. In humans, increases in these hormone levels during puberty is what causes our soft downy Vellis hair to become darker, coarser terminal hairs.
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Is Smaug the last dragon?

Smaug was the last named dragon of Middle-earth. He was slain by Bard, a descendant of Girion, Lord of Dale.
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Are Merry and Pippin related?

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His father's sister, Esmerelda Took, is the mother of his best friend Merry, making Merry and Pippin first cousins. He is more distantly related to Frodo; the two Hobbits are second cousins once removed on Pippin's father's side.
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Why are hobbits Halflings?

Halflings was a name for Hobbits used by Men; it was originally given to them by the tall Dúnedain who had stood two rangar tall, making the average Hobbit about half their height. The term first applied to the Harfoots who became known in Arnor around T.A. 1050 and later to the Fallohides and the Stoors.
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Why does Sméagol say Gollum?

One way in which he was transformed was constantly making a horrible gurgling and swallowing sound, which sounded like the word "gollum." As he began to change, his friends and family mocked him and cast him out of his home, calling him Gollum. The name stuck.
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How did Gandalf know about Sméagol?

As the other answers have said, Gandalf knew about Gollum from Bilbo. He suspected that Gollum's ring was powerful. By catching Gollum and interrogating him, Gandalf began to suspect that the Bilbo's ring might be the One and discovered where Gollum had found it.
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Who does Frodo see in the Dead Marshes?

Frodo is in half-trance and follows the lights, drawn to one of the faces. He stares at it intently. Suddenly its eyes open and Frodo falls into the water. Under the surface, Frodo sees greenish, ghotsly faces, screaming and reaching for him.
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How did Gandalf become white?

Gandalf was carried to Caras Galadhon in Lothlórien, where he was healed, given a new staff, and clothed in white, and thus became Gandalf the White.
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