Hobbit’s Life style The Shire Hobbits are 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 favorite haunt. Farming, eating, and socializing are the main aspects of their unadventurous georgic life. According to Jackson's trilogy, they enjoy seven meals a day, when they can get them: breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner, and, later in the evening, supper. Even they prefer eating to a woman. Hobbit's passion for eating They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill or a hand-loom, though they were skilful with tools even in ancient days they were, as a rule, shy of the “Big-Folk”. They are quick of hearing and sharp-eyed, and though they are inclined to be fat and do not hurry unnecessarily, they are nonetheless nimble ...