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Originally Posted by Bęthberry
Intriguing possibilities being considered here, alatar. Would this suggest that hobbits, along with unicorns, were not brought onto the ArK?
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Are there unicorns in Middle Earth? Anyway, the answer regarding the Hobbits, whether there was a Flood, or whether the flood was local or happened before the Shirefolk existed is that, I think, there's a mention that in Frodo's time some of the Hobbits began getting a little bigger. You may have part of the group becoming more adept at hiding, and so eventually become completely hidden from 'human' sight - so much so that we bulldoze over their villages and wipe them out
. The other part of the group becomes more and more 'man-like,' and eventually are subsumed into the race of Man. You can see today (sit for a while at any mall) and you'll see various sizes and shapes of people, which obviously demonstrates the presence of Hobbit, orc, elf, maia and other genes in the mix.
Regarding Noah's Ark, (again, if we're playing that game) is entirely possible for the nearly invisible Hobbits to have stowed aboard. Or to have missed the boat completely, which would explain their absence today.