culture

((This text, authored by an unknown scribe in Dale during the early Fourth Age, concerns a strange Dalish custom.  For those unfamiliar with the tale of Old Farmer Jack and the Boggart, it is suggested that they first seek out the story in some form.  The version set down here may serve as an adequate example, though any passing Dale-lander will almost certainly be willing to explain and perhaps even demonstrate the custom, if asked.))

(OOC - Having been in the Bree-lands for a month or so, Angrinc has seen and learnt much that is new to him.  In particular, he has come to know hobbits and their ways, and the scholar in him has demanded that he set down his observations and feelings for posterity.  As he comes to meet more of the peoples of Middle-earth, he may well continue to chronicle his perceptions of each….)

As I find myself ever drawn to the Western lands of this Middle-earth, I have, for the first time in my life, met the strange people called hobbits.

Gibberish; that was all it was. Braigion did not care what they said, and immediately walked up the stairs in the room where the two guards had brought him. It all started so well...and apparently it was true: he belonged no where; no one seemed to want him here anyway.

He never asked to be here.

That tall one...he was intrigued, and then took on that prideful look, and even called Braigion a 'deformed creature'. He held back...though the dark head held Gileryn in a way the Avar did not like at all. Already being peeved didn't help...

An Essay on the culture of the Hobbits