Of Hobbits and Dwarves

[Child of the 7th Age]

Birdland -- I like your myth very much. It makes about as much sense as anything I've ever read about the creation of hobbits.

To someone else who asked, there are portions of the prologue which state what little we know of hobbit origins. It's very strange that each of the three branches of the hobbit people resemble another race either in some physical or cultural detail --the Fallohides as Elves, the Stoors as Man, and the Harfoot as Dwarves. I don't know of any other people of whom this is said. That is except modern man himself, whom Tolkien say as an amalgam of man and elf and hobbit and perhaps dwarf(?), not in a genetic sense but in terms of our characteristics and abilities.

And of course there's that humorous but cryptic comment in the Hobbit itself which says that there must have been a fairy (i.e. Elven) ancestor in the Took family!

And somewhere it also states hobbits were originally quite "primitive", a bit like the early history of the aborigines.

Who's to say?

sharon, the 7th age hobbit