Actually Hobbits and Men age at about the same rate and die around the same age as well. That would make sense since Hobbits are a distant relation to Men. To reach the age of 111 was a very rare occurrance for Hobbits, and it would be the same for us today. But it seems that they assigned different ages for rites of passage than we do today. Comparative ages seem to me to be our teens and their tweens, 18 to 21 being adulthood to us and 33 for them. We normally begin marrying in our 20's they started this custome much later.
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