Hooplah (a word I love, and you should to)
Well, I believe that this whole business about 'new discoveries' is quite a bit of hooplah, as they say. Hobbits have been well known for years, and many were prominent members of society in in the previous centuries. I'm sure, if any of them were around today, they might well be slighted to be included in this futile endeavor to uncover 'hobbits.'
Homo sapiens hobbitus: A member of the homo sapiens genus, standing slightly shorder than the typical member of the sub-group. These "hobbits" share certain generic characteristics with the two other members of the homo sapiens genus, homo numenorius drownius, and homo gondorius normalus. There is also a mild resemblance shared by all members of the genus and the related sub-group, homo leafearius, which includes the legendary, and elusive, often hunted homo legolasus. The Class that includes homo leaferius and sapiens also has distinct relationships to australopithicus wosarensis (Interesting Note: The excavating archaeologist, Ronald Mo-Lanson, found the first preserved skeletal remains of the wosarensis, who he named Ghan-Lucy-Ghan, after a popular Beatles song), australopithicus pettymidgetus, homo nastiorcus, homo bigorcus, and, of course, homo giganticorcwithclubsandnastyteethandstuffus (also called, "bignames").
Hobbits are of substantial less height than the other homo sapiens, but, through adapted intermarraige, can attain a greater height. There are three sub-divisions of the hobbit species: Stores, who have an otherwordly obsession with shopping (from which Prof. Tolkien derived the 'Stoors'), Phallowjives, the infamous Hobbit-Rappers of the Paleolithic Era, (from which Prof. T. derived 'Fallohides') and the ones that nobody remembers...not even me...Otherwise, Hobbits are pretty much the same, and I'm sure you lot can find plenty of scholarly essays on the subject of Hobbits here.
Some notable hobbits:
James Madison: The only hobbit ever to be President of the US
Napoleon Bonaparte: The only French hobbit
Grigori Rasputin: The only Hobbit/Istari/Czarist
Abigail Adams: The only hobbit feminist
Caligula: Still holds the record for "Craziest Hobbit in the History of History"
Darth Vader: Don't ask.
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Hey, it's mirth, ain't it?
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"What mortal feels not awe/Nor trembles at our name,
Hearing our fate-appointed power sublime/Fixed by the eternal law.
For old our office, and our fame,"
-Aeschylus, Song of the Furies
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