“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” goes way back in the history of Middle-earth, thousands of years before “The Lord of the Rings.” It is loosely based on the supplementary texts and appendices that JRR Tolkien wrote to fill out his fictional universe. While we’re sure to see a few familiar characters along the way, there are also some new ones, like the Harfoots.
In Tolkien’s story, the Harfoots are essentially proto-hobbits, the ancient ancestors of the hobbits we know and love from “The Lord of the Rings.” Like the Hobbits, Harfoots are short, human-like creatures with large, hairy feet. However, these creatures do not live in a country-garden area like the Shire. They are forest dwellers, known for their ability to hide and camouflage themselves to live undetected in their quiet communities and campsites. In fact, some other communities don’t even know they exist!
Tolkien’s writings have very few mentions of the Harfoots by name, but “The Rings of Power” fills in those gaps with some notable Harfoot characters. Elanor “Nori” Brandyfoot (played by Markella Kavenagh) is a young Harfoot whose curiosity leads her to discover a mysterious stranger near a meteor impact site. There are also characters like Sadoc Burrows (played by Lenny Henry) and Poppy Proudfellow (played by Megan Richards) who seem to have a role to play as the story unfolds. None of these characters appear directly in Tolkien’s writings; instead, they are created for the TV series to fill in some of the gaps.
The Harfoots have a connection to the hobbits as we know them beyond just the superficial resemblance. According to Tolkien’s “stories” of Middle-earth, their species evolves over thousands of years along with two other types of hobbits, called Stoors and Fallohides. Eventually the Harfoots settle in the Shire, where hobbit culture as we remember it from “The Lord of the Rings” develops. They are also the first to be called “hobbits”, a name supposedly given to them by the Stoors and the Fallohides.
It looks like the Harfoots will have a big role in “The Rings of Power,” but we’ll have to wait and see how their stories unfold.
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