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Chapter 2 of the Silmarilion:
It is told that in their beginning the Dwarves were made by Aulė in the Darkness of Middle-Earth; for so greatly did Aulė desire the coming of the Children, to have learners to whom he could teach his lore and his crafts, that he was unwilling to await the fulfilment of the desingns of Iluvatar.
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Aulė didn't want to wait, so he created his own creatures, the Dwarves. Iluvatar was angry and said that they had to sleep until the Elves and the Human were on Earth.
I don't know about the Hobbits.