[Alfirin]

Originally Posted by The Might

It does appear that hobbits were around until about 12000 years ago - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis

But all in all everything "magical" would slowly fade and disappear during the Fourth Age.

By that logic, we still had Eagles until about 500 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haast's_Eagle

or perhaps even later

http://www.futilitycloset.com/2011/0...untain-hazard/