Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-25565811-20150125131013/@comment-25565811-20150128193520

Dutch7 wrote: They are a peacefull folk and not war-people ... I agree, but you don't use banners only in war. I live in a small village, and here every club has it's own traditional banner: The sports club, the choir and also the rifle club and the volutary fire fighters. So these banners are a symbol for the community and not for warfare.

In the same way i think about hobbit banners. They wandered around a lot before they settled in the Shire. So they probably had a need for a symbol to lead them. Or to discern them from other hobbit tribes. I don't remember, if there is something mentioned in the books.

And in addition to all this, I just don't like it, that I always have to borrow a banner from someone else to protect my hobbit base.