Exactly my thoughts, Elrian!
Although what I would like to see even more is a history of the halflings... hints as to how they came into being, their history between the time period after their awakening and before they inhabited the Shire, how the Harfoots and Fallohides were sundered, etc. etc. I would be very interested to gain a little more insight as to how it was in the beginning for the hobbits.