cool facts about The Hobbit

I found these online, from a very cool website, TVfacts:

• Bilbo Baggins was about 51½ years old at the time of The Hobbit. 
• Hobbits called themselves “kuduk” in their own language. 
• Tolkien meant the name Bag-End, from a hobbit’s point of view, to be associated with the end of a bag, as in a ‘cul-de-sac’. 
• Tolkien had an aunt whose farm was nicknamed Bag-End. 
• Bag-End was a luxurious hobbit-hole and was envied by many, especially Bilbo’s cousins, the Sackville-Bagginses. 
• Bilbo’s dad was called Bungo Baggins. His mom was Primula Took. It was said he got his sensibility from his Baggins side, and his curiousness for adventure from his Took side. 
• Bilbo Baggins was the first hobbit to become famous in the world outside the Shire. 
• There are three main kinds of hobbit: Harfoots, Fallowhides and Stoors. 
• Hobbiton was one of the oldest villages in the Shire. It was built on a hill. With Bywater, it formed a single community. 
• Bilbo’s hobbit-hole of Bag-End was in a neighbourhood called Under-Hill. 
• All the holes in this neighbourhood were dug into Hobbiton Hill. 
• An ancestor of Bilbo was called Bandobras Took. He was a huge hobbit (4 feet, 5 inches tall) who became famous for killing the goblin chieftan Golfimbul in the Battle of Greenfields. After this battle, Bandobras was nicknamed Bullroarer Took. 
• Rivendell was a refuge for elves which was situated in a valley. It was founded by Elrond who had been fleeing a great war. 
• Elrond was thousands of years old at the time of The Hobbit. 
• Elrond was also known as Elrond Peredhil (Half-elven). 
• “Elrond” means “Elf of the Cave” in Sindarin. 
• As a child, when he and his twin brother Elros were rescued after fleeing a battle, he was found playing in a cave beneath a waterfall, and so received his name. 
• Rivendell was a place of quiet meditation, scholarly learning, but also merriment – especially music and singing. 
• Rivendell is called “Imladris” in Sindarin. 
• The Misty Mountains are about 1440km long – nearly the length of New Zealand!