Editing Hobbit (section)

=== Migration to the West ===

[[File:Anglo-Saxon Homelands and Settlements.svg|thumb|upright=1.5|The three peoples who founded England included those who came from the Angle between [[Flensburg Fjord]] and the [[Schlei]], from the East (across the [[North Sea]]), hence the name "England". The migrations of these three peoples are reflected in those of the three types of Hobbits.{{sfn|Shippey|2001|pp=198-199}}]]

In the [[History of Arda#Third Age|Third Age]], hobbits undertook the arduous task of crossing the Misty Mountains - a migration period they refer to as the "Wandering Days", the earliest remembered time in their history. Reasons for this trek are unknown, but they possibly had to do with [[Sauron]]'s growing power in nearby Greenwood, which later became known as [[Mirkwood]] as a result of the shadow that fell upon it during his search of the forest for the One Ring. Hobbits took different routes in their journey westward, but as they began to settle together in [[Bree (Middle-earth)|Bree-land]], [[Dunland]], and the Angle formed by the rivers Mitheithel and [[Bruinen]], the divisions between the hobbit-kinds began to blur. Shippey explains that the name "Angle" has a special resonance, as the name "England" comes from the Angle (Anglia) between the [[Flensburg Fjord]] and the [[Schlei|River Schlei]], in the north of Germany next to Denmark, the origin of the [[Angles (people)|Angles]] among the [[Anglo-Saxons]] who founded England. Further, the migrations of the three types of hobbit mirror those of England's founders.{{sfn|Shippey|2001|pp=198-199}}