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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hickli
Um, I don't believe the Barrows were built by or for Hobbits..............
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Yes I think you'll find even David Day is aware of that fact (or is he? hmmmm I must find out...
). Yet aren't they uncannily close to the homeland of the Hobbits? Right in between The Shire and Bree in fact, where Hobbits also live. And look again at the first quote I pulled out:
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Of these things in the time of Frodo there were still some traces left in local words and names, many of which closely resembled those found in Dale or in Rohan. Most notable were the names of days, months, and seasons; several other words of the same sort (such as mathom and smial) were also still in common use, while more were preserved in the place-names of Bree and the Shire. The personal names of the Hobbits were also peculiar and many had come down from ancient days.
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Bree, The Shire, Dale, Rohan - all mentioned as linguistically linked and then you find that funerary practices of Men from these parts have links. Uncanny and most interesting