Mungo Mugwort, hobbit adventurer. Mungo was born and raised in Bree and while still a youth took service at the Prancing Pony Inn looking after travelers' livestock, chiefly ponies ridden by hobbits and dwarves, aside from a few horses ridden by Big Folk. He liked to slip into the tavern in the evening to listen to the travelers' tales of lands to the east. He finally decided he would set out on his own in search of adventure, without waiting to join a party. He somehow made it across the Trollshaws and the Misty Mountains, perhaps because he looked too thin to be worth eating and too poor to be worth robbing, and then plunged into Mirkwood. Strange visions lured him off the path, and he found himself hopelessly lost. After climbing a hill in hopes of seeing a way out of he woods (and not finding one), he was delighted to mee a party of more practical adventurers.
He is short, even for a hobbit, and thin from wandering on short rations. He wears plain green trousers, tunic and jacket, all now badly worn, bare furry feet like any hobbit, a sturdy short-bow and a quiver of arrows on his shoulder, which he did not waste trying to shoot uneatable beasts in the forest, and a sturdy old dagger he had found in a ruined tower in the Trollshaws