[Child of the 7th Age]

Child stood on the deck, staring across at the shoreline of Beleriand. It was hard for her to believe that she had hobbit ancestors who had dwelled in this strange land.
For so long, she had read and been told that the earliest hobbits in Middle-earth were those who had lived on the shores of the Anduin about the year 1000 or so in the Third Age.

She wondered if the hobbits of the First Age would look and act like those she had known all her life. This was something that had never occurred to her before. She had always mentally assumed that hobbits of any age would dress and act and talk exactly alike. Now that she thought about this, however, she realized such an assumption was quite foolish.

Her distant ancestors could, indeed, be quite different from herself or Rose or even Kali. This idea was not especially comforting. She would just have to wait and see.