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11-13-2006, 01:14 PM | #1 |
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Where did Hobbits come from?
I was just reading the Fellowship of the Ring for the fifth time and I came to In the House of Tom Bombadil, and there Tom's talking about how he was there when the first raindrop fell, the first acorn, and he made paths before the big people, and he saw the Little People arriving. The Little People arriving. That implies that Middle-Earth was there before Hobbits were, that also implies that Tom knows about goings on in all Middle-Earth, so if the Little People were "arriving" then that means that they must have come from somewhere over the Sea, but not from Numenor otherwise there would be a record, so that means that there's another island out there. The Home of the Hobbits.
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11-13-2006, 04:13 PM | #2 |
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It's a nice theory, but there is no island where all Hobbits came from.
If you read the Silmarillion you'll see that Men appeared, or rather 'woke up' on Middle-earth in the First Aera. Many of the tribes were on the move for very long, some came West and eventually received Númenor to live on. But many others just stayed in Middle-earth. The Hobbits, as they are counted among Men, must have been among them. There just isn't much record of these more Eastern tribes. The Hobbits were only sighted when they popped up around the Anduin, from where they made their way to the Shire.
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11-13-2006, 05:04 PM | #3 |
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Pffff, maybe.
Haha. But I still don't get what Tom Bombadil meant by 'arriving'. |
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According to Silmarillion:
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11-15-2006, 12:12 AM | #5 |
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So...hobbits are really a bunch of fat midgets!
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11-15-2006, 12:45 AM | #6 |
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Aha!
This question has been bugging me for years!
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11-16-2006, 09:56 PM | #8 |
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Good point. I tend to agree.
Tom was meant to be an enigma, as I seem to remember someone whipping a quote from Tolkien saying so himself.
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11-18-2006, 05:04 PM | #9 |
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Where did hobbits come from? Hobbits came from they mamas. You see, the daddy hobbit and the mama hobbit get together in a close and intimate way, and nine months later, a baby hobbit issues forth. There. Question answered. Glad to be of service.
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