Meet the Guy Who Took a Census of Middle-Earth

Gathering census data is essential to understanding how a population connects to a particular geographical space. The U.S. requires thousands of agents to complete one census every 10 years.

In 2012, however, one young Swedish man took it upon himself to complete a thorough census of the entire earth well, Middle-earth.

Thanks to Emil Johansson, creator of LotrProject, we now know that the life expectancy of a hobbit is 96.24 years. Bilbo Baggins lived until age 131, making him the second oldest halfling of all time (behind Smagol). But his cousin, Lotho Sackville-Baggins, had the shortest hobbit life, dying at a mere 55 years young.

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