“‘Hobbits!’ he thought. “Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There’s something mighty queer behind this.’ He was right, but he never found out any more about it.”
They were not gay, they were queer. It’s said quite a lot in the first chapters :)
The thinking fox!