[The Saucepan Man]

Everyone seems to assume that all Men awoke in the same form as the Edain that we see in the Silmarillion, and that Hobbits evolved from them. But evolution seems to me to be inimicable to Tolkien's works. Is it really so difficult to imagine that Hobbits awoke in much the same form as the 3 foot tall hairy-footed creatures that we see in LotR? Not all of the Race of Man had to awake in the form of the Edain.