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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/onering.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Who knows their trolls?
Treebeard himself repeats the explanation that trolls were made by the Enemy as mockeries of ents, as orcs were of elves.
Per the other two questions:
I haven't the slightest idea whence came hobbits ultimately (but I like to believe that they were independently indigenous in ME).
As to the issue of dwarvish afterlife, it is contested. The elves -- who usually get the last word in JRRT's arguments -- maintain that dead dwarves returned to the earth whence they were created. The dwarves, however, maintain of themselves that Mahal gathers their souls to a special dwarf-ghetto in the Halls of Mandos where they await the remaking of Arda after the Last Battle. They hold that Iluvatar will hallow them and place them among the Children and that they will serve Mahal in the remaking of Arda. Also the seven fathers will return to their former identities and live among their own kin.
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