[Ainaserkewen]

I can't believe that Hobbits are merely "small-men" There are so many questions that hint that they are so much more. Look at today...we have dwarves(little people) and midgets but they aren't "hobbits" I don't think that through a couple of mutant genes can come an entire race, and out of nowhere?!

No, there's something special about Hobbits that people fail to see. They were meant to be in my opinion, somebody had the idea to create them, maybe another Valar, maybe Eru himself, as companions to the three other free peoples. Remember...hobbits came in three distinced groups. Their names fail me at the moment, but there was one connected to each of the three other races, and they carried specific characteristics along with them, even when they merged with other kinds of hobbits.

The idea that men where bred with other creatures to create hobbits is rediculous. It doesn't work...I tried as a child to get my cat and dog to have pikkens(puppies/kittens, you get it) Needless to say it never happened. I think hobbits where made for a reason and are one of the initial mysteries of Tolkien's world. Why were they bred, what were they to do and so on. Like the afterlife of men, dragons and Tom Bombadil, perhaps we are only left to guess, and I daresay that Tolkien himself never had much of an idea, and if he did, it was hidden.