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Ah, but Morwen, I still don't think you quite see how having Hobbits arise as a new race equally considered Children of Iluvatar would be too important not to be mentioned in the Ainulindale. And having them be nothing more than oddly-shaped Men would make one wonder what the cosmic significance is of having them in the Fellowship. I fully believe Tolkien never meant their origin to be more than either of these scenarios, but a further meddling by one of the Valar in order to help look after and protect Arda itself would fit so much better to the feeling of the story. The way you project it, the Hobbits have no special significance; they just happen to exist. If they are a result of a request to redress the wounds to the land inflicted by thousands of years of war, then they are fulfilling divine destinies.
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