If the ringbearer died

[burrahobbit]

The idea of hobbits being created for this particular eventuality (though it isn't one I go for, personally) is an interesting one and isn't specifically refuted by anything Tolkien said or wrote, so why not speculate?

The reason that it isn't ok to speculate about this particular thing is that while there may be nothing to refute it there is certainly nothing to support it aside from a wish for hobbits to be especially special.

However, I would not say that there is nothing to refute it. I will not fully enumerate the various refutations, but I will provide an example or two.

The idea above stems partly from the idea that Hobbits are not Men. This is patently false. Hobbits share an origin with all other Men, from the Haladin of the First Age to the Wood Woses (Ghan-buri-ghan's folk).

While it may be heartening to think of God Almighty intervening in the mortal world, it just didn't happen very often, and in the few instances that He did they were just that, instances. Short periods of time in which great cataclysms took place. Almost every time in which a great Power had to do with Middle-earth it was a Vala, or because of a Vala. It is out of character for Eru to make things happen slowly and secretly. If Eru wanted Sauron to be gone, he would have been gone with a snap of His ineffable fingers.

"It is," and it was. No dilly-dallying.