If just watch the movies yes. In the books they have a Shire-thain as a military leader.
LOTR book lore
By the time of LOTR the role had been mostly ceremonial for a while, but Paladin Took II (Pippin’s father) lead a resistance against Saruman’s and Lotho Sackville-Baggins’ regime.
Yeah, but both the historically military role of thain and the resistance were defensive in nature. Unlike the very civilised elves, gondorians, rohirim etc. hobbits never waged wars of conquest or subjugation. At least as far as the transmitted history goes.
Hell, Aragorn spends most of his reign conquering.
If just watch the movies yes. In the books they have a Shire-thain as a military leader.
LOTR book lore
By the time of LOTR the role had been mostly ceremonial for a while, but Paladin Took II (Pippin’s father) lead a resistance against Saruman’s and Lotho Sackville-Baggins’ regime.
Yeah, but both the historically military role of thain and the resistance were defensive in nature. Unlike the very civilised elves, gondorians, rohirim etc. hobbits never waged wars of conquest or subjugation. At least as far as the transmitted history goes. Hell, Aragorn spends most of his reign conquering.
Which is especially funny considering they where the England analogy (Yes, I know Talkien hated having his works analyzed this way)