The Origin of a Pygmy Hobbit

[Marlowe221]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

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There is that single strange mid 19th Century occurrence of "hobbit" in Denham's list of supernatural creatures. But apparently nobody knows a) if Tolkien ever read the obscure work in question or b) where Denham got the word from in the first place.

Well, that's easy enough. The word "hobbit" occasionally appears on such anitquated lists because hobbits were/are real creatures that lived in the northwest of the old world, east of the sea during the Third and Fourth ages of the world.

They may stlil be around somewhere, though if so I'm sure they were more numerous formerly than they are today...