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They serve much the same function in LotR. So?
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No they don't the relationship of lotR to the Sil is much more complex. LotR is the culmination of the whole Legndarium.
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Balderdash. Show me how the hobbits of TH are not the hobbits of LotR.
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The only Hobbit we see in TH is Bilbo. Bilbo in TH is a typical fairy creture. The complex social structure of Hobbit society only comes in with LotR. Its inly in LotR that Hobbits become 'humanised'.
Sorry, but in 1937 Tolkien refers to TH as 'peripheral'. Over 25 years later, in 1964 (letter 257) he says the same.
No time.