Concerning Halflings

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

are there any other works concernign hobbits,
anything which comes before The Hobbit, or even
their "ancient" history, when they still lived in the Gladden Fields etc

(Sorry SGH, didn't know whether this should go here or in Hobbit forum :o )

[Sister Golden Hair]

Originally posted by Last Child of Ungoliant
are there any other works concernign hobbits,
anything which comes before The Hobbit, or even
their "ancient" history, when they still lived in the Gladden Fields etc

(Sorry SGH, didn't know whether this should go here or in Hobbit forum :o ) No problem and this is the forum. There is information strewn throughout Tolkien's works, and other reference sources. Try the Peoples of Middle-earth, volume 12, The Histories of Middle-earth series.

[Michael Martinez]

Hobbit information can be found in:

The Hobbit

The Lord of the Rings

Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth

The Adventures of Tom Bomabdil

The Peoples of Middle-earth

If you want to be confused, then read The Return of the Shadow, The Treason of Isengard, The War of the Ring, and Sauron Defeated for early versions of The Lord of the Rings. However, the Epilogue to The Lord of the Rings is well worth reading. It was published in Sauron Defeated.

[Michael Martinez]

are there any other works concernign hobbits,
anything which comes before The Hobbit, or even
their "ancient" history, when they still lived in the Gladden Fields etc

For what it's worth, the essay "Of Dwarves and Men" provides information about the most ancient Hobbits Tolkien wrote of (living in the Vales of Anduin early in the Third Age).