Your right!
I think for the hobbits, Tolkien was trying to reflect the size of the ring to the size of the heroes.
There was the ring, if you took one glance at it you would never be able to marvel at the fact that it was a powerful and dangerous menace to all things good(I personally would probably think it to be a "lovely souvenier(sp?)" in a way bilbo once had);
The same with the hobbits. A loving folk that keep to themselves, you would never think, looking at Samwise Gamgee or Frodo Baggins and see them as the saviours of Middle Earth.
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