More may be found regarding Tolkien's conception of languages in Middle-Earth at the end of the Third Age in The Peoples of Middle-Earth, Volume XII of The History of Middle-Earth, on pages 28-84, in which Christopher Tolkien gives us a rather longer and carefully worked out earlier form of Appendix F (of The Return of the King), along with his own comments and a few other notes and a letter or two. (JRR) Tolkien devotes much of this earlier form of Appendix F to a history of the hobbits, in greater detail than we have in LOTR, as well as having notes on the translation of hobbit names (of which we have only the briefest mention at the conclusion of the printed Appendix F).
For those searching for more lore concerning the hobbits' language and their history, I recommend consulting that text.
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'They say,' answered Andreth: 'they say that the One will himself enter into Arda, and heal Men and all the Marring from the beginning to the end.'
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