The Harfoots are one of the three races of Hobbits. Harfoots were the most common type of Hobbits, and in their earliest known history they lived in the lower foothills of the Misty Mountains, in the Vale of Anduin, in an area roughly bounded by the Gladden River in the south and the small forested region where later was the Eagles Eyrie near the High Pass to the north. By the 1300s of the Third Age they had reached Bree, which long was the most western village of any Hobbits. When The Shire was colonized in TA 1601 most of its people were Harfoots.