Before the crossing of the mountains the Hobbits had already become divided into three somewhat different breeds: Harfoots, Stoors, and Fallohides. The Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller, and shorter, and they were beardless and bootless; their hands and feet were neat and nimble; and they preferred highlands and hillsides. The Stoors were broader, heavier in build; their feet and hands were larger, and they preferred flat lands and riversides. The Fallohides were fairer of skin and also of hair, and they were taller and slimmer than the others; they were lovers of trees and of woodlands.

The Harfoots had much to do with Dwarves in ancient times, and long lived in the foothills of the mountains. They moved westward early, and roamed over Eriador as far as Weathertop while the others were still in the Wilderland. They were the most normal and representative variety of Hobbit, and far the most numerous. They were the most inclined to settle in one place, and longest preserved their ancestral habit of living in tunnels and holes.
The Stoors lingered long by the banks of the Great River Anduin, and were less shy of Men. They came west after the Harfoots and followed the course of the Loudwater southwards; and there many of them long dwelt between Tharbad and the borders of Dunland before they moved north again.

The Fallohides, the least numerous, were a northerly branch. They were more friendly with Elves than the other Hobbits were, and had more skill in language and song than in handicrafts; and of old they preferred hunting to tilling. They crossed the mountains north of Rivendell and came down the River Hoarwell. In Eriador they soon mingled with the other kinds that had preceded them, but being somewhat bolder and more adventurous, they were often found as leaders or chieftains among clans of Harfoots or Stoors. Even in Bilbo's time the strong Fallohidish strain could still be noted among the greater families, such as the Tooks and the Masters of Buckland.

But as season 2 (which premieres Aug. 29 on Prime Video) begins, the show’s primary harfoot characters Nori Brandyfoot (Markella Kavenagh) and Poppy Proudfellow (Megan Richards) are exploring the desert region of Rhûn, in the east of Middle-earth. There, they’ll meet some distant cousins. These are the stoors, who predate the hobbit-adjacent riverfolk. Unlike the harfoots, the stoors are not nomadic.

“The stoors’ ancestry at some point was nomadic,” says Tanya Moodie, who plays the stoors’ community leader Gundabel. “But over the years, we as a group have settled and that has become our culture, to look after one another.”

Eastern hobbits that live in the desert hah....ughhh Stoors by the way are supposed to be most closely associated with WATER....river folk...flat lands and riversides....yep in the show...desert canyon and caves riiiiiiight.

In grander scheme of things....the entire hobbit plotline is pointless...Second Age events have NOHING in common with hobbit actions....that's the problem...if they had some role in the original stories and now they would only heavily shifting it.....sure then maybe just maybe some thematic importance would be there....but they have none...there are no wizards and hobbits involved in the forging of the Rings and rise of the darkness in Second Age so as invented fanfic it will have no meaning upon the larger story...because it cannot have and no matter the changes it won't have huge impact.

Stoors being desert and then turning to fishers of riverlands hah...Fremen hahah ahh yeah it feels as if the showmakers are more inspired by everything else BUT Tolkien and his vision....after all as they said admitted themselves...the masked guys of the desert in Rhun plotline ARE inspired by Mad Max.....I had from the start thoughts this looks more like post apocalyptic Mad Max fury road bikers gang than anything else haha.

Listen if someone wants the african hobbits do it properly...Far Harad is there...Haradrim are all there too...all the black people they would have wanted for their diversity quotas...but they don't meaning they don't care for worldbuilding.

"Hobbits on the other hand were in nearly all respects normal Men, but of very short stature. (..)
They were not as numerous or variable as ordinary Men, but evidently more numerous and adaptable to different modes of life and habitat than the Drûgs, and when they are first encountered in the histories already showed divergences in colouring, stature, and build, and in their ways of life and preferences for different types of country to dwell in (...) In their unrecorded past they must have been a primitive, indeed 'savage' people, but when we meet them they had (in varying degrees) acquired many arts and customs by contact with Men, and to a less extent with Dwarves and Elves. With Men of normal stature they recognized their close kinship, whereas Dwarves or Elves, whether friendly or hostile, were aliens, with whom their relations were uneasy and clouded by fear. Bilbo's statement (...) that the cohabitation of Big Folk and Little Folk in one settlement at Bree was peculiar and nowhere else to be found was probably true in his time (the end of the Third Age); but it would seem that actually Hobbits had liked to live with or near to Big Folk of friendly kind, who with their greater strength protected them from many dangers and enemies and other hostile Men, and received in exchange many services. For it is remarkable that the western Hobbits preserved no trace or memory of any language of their own. The language they spoke when they entered Eriador was evidently adopted from the Men of the Vales of Anduin (related to the Atani, / in particular to those of the House of Bëor [> of the Houses of Hador and of Bëor]); and after their adoption of the Common Speech they retained many words of that origin. This indicates a close association with Big Folk; though the rapid adoption of the Common Speech in Eriador shows Hobbits to have been specially adaptable in this respect. As does also the divergence of the Stoors, who had associated with Men of different sort before they came to the Shire.

The vague tradition preserved by the Hobbits of the Shire was that they had dwelt once in lands by a Great River, but long ago had left them, and found their way through or round high mountains, when they no longer felt at ease in their homes because of the multiplication of the Big Folk and of a shadow of fear that had fallen on the Forest.
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58. Indeed it is probable that only at Bree and in the Shire did any communities of Hobbits survive at that time west of the Misty Mountains. Nothing is known of the situation in lands further east, from which the Hobbits must have migrated in unrecorded ages."

Wild Hobbits of the Anduin Vales

Many people believe wild Hobbits to be nothing more than children's stories, but the truth is that a few halflings still live in the region about the Gladden Fields. They don't live in comfortable Hobbit-holes, but hide under the Eaves of Mirkwood or dig a refuge along the river-bank for a night and move on. They have little contact with the humans of the region; the dangers of Wilderland have turned them into a secretive, shy folk, quite unlike that sedentary, settled cousins of Eriador. They play little part in the affairs of the region, and consider most humans to be as dangerous and oversized as Orcs. Only a few trustworthy people, mostly River-folk, know where these Halflings make their home.