The Hobbit has a host of wonderful creatures and beings who blend in beautifully with the nature around them, and seek to preserve and protect the forests and their creatures from the evil Necromancer. One such being is of course Radagast the Brown, who is shown to be the friends of the hedgehogs and the flora around his houses, as he rides around on a sled pulled by Rustabell Rabbits, the fastest in the world, and tries to save his friends from the large spiders who crawl over his house out of Mirkwood.