Hobbit

h hobbit
Difficulty	2
Attacks	Melee 1d6, can use projectiles

h hobbit
Difficulty	2
Attacks	Melee 1d6, can use projectiles
Base level	1
Base experience	23
Speed	9
Base AC	10
Base MR	0
Alignment	6 (lawful)
Frequency (by normal means)	Quite rare
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	500
Nutritional value	200
Size	Small
Resistances	None
Resistances conveyed	None
A hobbit: has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. is omnivorous. can pick up weapons and food. has infravision. can be seen through infravision.
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A hobbit, h, is one of the monsters you will encounter a few floors down in the NetHack dungeon. They are usually - but not always - peaceful for lawful characters.

Hobbits will always be generated with one of a sling, a dagger, or an elven dagger, with an equal chance of receiving any of them. In addition, they have a 10% chance to receive an elven mithril coat, and a 10% chance to be given a dwarvish cloak.<ref>makemon.c#line288 They also enjoy collecting things off the floor, so one may frequently find other random items in their inventories.

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Encyclopedia entry

Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more
numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace
and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-
farmed countryside was their favourite haunt. They do not
and did not understand or like machines more complicated
than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a handloom, although
they were skillful with tools. Even in ancient days they
were, as a rule, shy of "the Big Folk", as they call us, and
now they avoid us with dismay and are becoming hard to find.

[ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]