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Hobbits Of Lord Of The Rings Are Real!

Hobbits are a legendary race of humans in J. R. R. Tolkien's books. Tolkien depicted hobbits as subspecies of humanity or close relatives of humans, standing about half the height of an average human.

They live barefooted and in beautiful underground cottages with windows, which are generally built into the slopes of hills, and are referred to as halflings in Tolkien's books. Their feet feature strong leathery soles and are covered with curly hair on top.

The titular hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, is the protagonist of the 1937 children's novel The Hobbit, in which he is forced into an unexpected adventure involving a dragon. The hobbits Frodo Baggins, Sam Gamgee, Pippin Took, and Merry Brandybuck are prominent characters in The Lord of the Rings, and they all play important parts in the battle to defend their world from evil.

Hobbits live in a small town called Hobbiton in The Hobbit, which is recognized in The Lord of the Rings as being part of a larger rural region called the Shire, the hobbits' homeland in the northwest of Middle-earth. They also live in Bree, a village east of the Shire where they live with regular people.

Even though the mythological hobbits of Middle Earth never existed, this ancient human descendant bears a striking similarity to Tolkien's creations.

Hobbits roamed the planet between fifty and a hundred thousand years ago on the Indonesian island of Flores.

Or, more precisely, a little species of ancient humans discovered in 2003, standing around three and a half feet tall. They were named Homo floresiensis, after the island where they were discovered. This was, of course, right in the heart of hobbit-mania, as The Return of the King, the final installment in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, released the same year. As a result, the discoverers dubbed this new species "hobbits" very quickly after their discovery.

Homo floresiensis, also known as "hobbits," was an early hominid species that lived on the Indonesian island of Flores. It was our nearest ancestor and kin species. Their discovery was revealed in 2004 based on the discovery of a skeleton known as LB1 in the Ling Bua cave. The small hominins stood under 4 feet tall and possessed a combination of modern and archaic physiological traits, including brains that were a third of our size. Archaeologists discovered stone tools that resembled the Oldowan style, which predominated roughly 2 million years ago, in the same cave.

Despite their lack of height, these ancient ancestors showed indications of possessing many of the features that distinguish humans from other animals. They had mastered the use of fire, and their skeletons were discovered with stone tools.

The condition known as island dwarfism is one of the most popular explanations for its smaller stature. Because of the restricted resources of their constrained geography, animals that live on islands frequently develop to grow smaller and smaller. The pygmy elephants of Malta, the miniature Burmese python, and even some dinosaur species are examples.

They may have ended up in the same situation. Homo floresiensis as they adapted to their environment over time. Even today, short-statured individuals can be found on Flores. Recent research on modern-day pygmy groups in the region, however, reveals that the current Flores residents are unrelated to the ancient hobbits. Instead, modern Flores islanders are believed to have evolved shorter statures on their own, demonstrating another example of island dwarfism in action.

The ancient hobbits' extinction remain a mystery. Changing environmental circumstances, as well as the inherent challenge of surviving on a small island, may have played a role. It's possible that our species played a part. Before 65,000 years ago, Homo sapiens moved through the area.

Our forefathers may have interacted with the ancient hobbits, thus contributing to their demise. Flores' hobbits and Middle Earth's hobbits had only a few things in common. Tolkien claimed that his hobbits were linked to men, but Homo floresiensis and humans are thought to have shared a common ancestor around 1.8 million years ago. They were also both short. The two hobbits split ways after that.

Frodo and his companions were depicted by Tolkien as little people who lived in a kind of preindustrial utopia, similar to the place where he grew up in the late 1800s.

About 12,000 years ago, our species invented farming. Flores' hobbits show no indications of agriculture. Their ancestors arrived on Flores with stone tools approximately a million years ago, according to the fossil record. Their forebears had reduced to hobbit size by 700,000 years ago, according to a recent study. According to charcoal and shattered bones discovered by experts, Homo floresiensis hunted miniature elephants with stone tools and then cooked their meat over cave fires.

Flores' hobbits were undoubtedly illiterate and unable to draw images. They lived an unchanging life for nearly a million years, making no advances to the stone tools on which their survival depended. They were able to flourish on Flores thanks to this evolutionary strategy – at least until we arrived.

Homo floresiensis' earliest bones come from around the time our species arrived in Southeast Asia and Australia. It's possible that humans annihilated them by out-competing them for food and shelter. More than 1.5 million years ago, these hobbits split from a common origin. Between 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, they became extinct.

J.R.R. Tolkien never got to learn of their discovery, but I'm sure he would have enjoyed learning that his little people were not entirely fantasy.