The eldest child of a family of pipe-weed farmers (whose name is highly regarded in the Southfarthing) Hamdric was born and raised in the village of Longbottom. The Hillburrow family have lived in Longbottom for several generations and their family name is a result of the marriage between Hamdric’s great-great-great-grandparents, Evermond Smallburrow II and Bilberry Underhill.

“Pipe-weed is in the Hillburrow’s veins, son.” Those are words Hamdric’s father repeated on a regular basis and for good reason. The Hillburrows have been farming pipe-weed in the Southfarthing ever since their founding and thus, Hamdric was thoroughly proficient in all things pipe-weed (including blowing smoke rings) before he was past his tweens.

Hamdric has two siblings. His younger brother Halmac has just entered his tweens with hopes of becoming a bounder while his little sister, Harebell has only just started learning the family trade.

Soon after emerging from his tweens, Hamdric decided “Hillburrow’s Pipe-Weed” needed to expand and so made the difficult decision to leave his home and move north. Despite sceptical looks from his father and brother and tears from his sister and mother, Hamdric bought a cosy burrow in the village of Foxcleave, just south of Michel Delving. On the day of his moving, His family hired him a cart and loaded it up with all he’d need. Furniture, tools, cooking utensils and a crate of Old Winyards wine were all stacked high onto the cart until the final lot of cargo was to be loaded, a full barrel of the finest Longbottom Leaf pipe-weed with the Hillburrow family stamp on the side.

Hamdric’s move went off without a hitch and now he can regularly be found sitting on a bench outside his hobbit hole, enjoying a pipe of his family’s pipe-weed.