This contact altered their speech slightly, and the Stoors adopted to their tongue a few Dunlendish words over time. There they came into contact with the Dunlendings. Unlike the other Hobbit-kinds, the Stoors took the Redhorn Pass and followed a southern route, where many branched off and moved south to the Angle of Eriador, south of Rivendell, and mingled with Harfoots and Fallohides that lived there but most went to northern Dunland which most resembled their old lands. 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 11 they too migrated west into Eriador. The Stoors originally dwelt in the southern vales of the River Anduin. The Stoors also had their own dialect of Hobbitish, owing to the fact that they spent some time in Dunland and adopted many strange words and names which they took to the Shire, and retained even until the late Third Age. Stoorish characteristics and appearances remained amongst the hobbits of the Eastfarthing, Buckland (such as the Brandybucks) and the Bree-hobbits. Only Stoors used boats, fished, and could swim. Stoors were the only hobbits who normally grew facial hair.Ī habit which set them apart from the Harfoots who lived in the mountain foothills, and the Fallohides who lived in forests far to the north, was that Stoors preferred flat lands and riversides.

Among the hobbits, the Stoors most resembled Men and were most friendly to them. They were heavier and broader in build than the other hobbits, and had large hands and feet.

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