Hobbits are a race of small folk of decent stealth, able to keep out of the sight of Big Folk like human men. The bottoms of their feet are tough/leathery, and curly woolly hair grows over the tops of their feet, so hobbits don’t wear shoes, and never will. The hair upon their head is curly, and their ears are slightly pointed. They’re usually said to have round, friendly faces that don’t grow facial hair. They are between three and four feet tall, with most being 3’6”. Hobbits ‘come of age’ (adulthood) at 33, and live to about 100 years or more. Their middle-age would be somewhere about 50 years old or so. However, many hobbits under the age of majority often indulge themselves in alcohol or pipeweed (tobacco). It’s not illegal; hobbits don’t have many rules (besides the obvious ones) as they are a relatively peaceful folk who stick to their meadows and countryside and farmland. They don’t take well to drastic change, and prefer simple tools to industrialized machines. Many are superstitious and easily entertained. They’re a race all about simple life— good drink and food, pleasant company, and a relatively lax society. Will Whitfoot is an older hobbit, possibly even silver-haired. Not a lot is known about Will, other than the fact that he served as Mayor of Michel Delving (a.k.a Mayor of the Shire, as Michel Delving is the de-facto capital of the Shire.) He was renowned as being the fattest hobbit in the Westfarthing, and was affectionately referred to as "Flourdumpling" after he emerged from the collapse of the Town Hole (the residence of the Mayor of Michel Delving) covered in chalk. Since the Free Fair is septennial, Will must have been Mayor since the last Fair before Shire-Reckoning (S.R.) 1413. However, as we are not told that was his first term, it's possible that he might already been serving since S.R. 1406 or even earlier. Given this possibility, it is safe to say that Will is either very charismatic, very intelligent in regard to politics, or both, though what he definitely isn’t is a bad Mayor. He is shown to protest for what he believes is right (nature conservation and a simple way of life) and is, for all intents and purposes, an average, good-natured hobbit with a genuine heart.