The "Hobbits where none should be" thing needs to be addressed.
There is absolutely nothing in Tolkien stating there were no Hobbits in the Second Age.
Quite the opposite, the Of Dwarves and Men essay even explicitly references primitive Hobbit tribes in "unrecorded ages".
I'd expected better from posters on this forum. Sigh.
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