Finished the Silmarillion, things still bother me though. - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Susan Delgado · 06-03-2003, 02:34 PM

Nobody knows where Hobbits come from. Tolkien deliberately left them a mystery to us as well as the other people of Middle-earth to facilitate Frodo's not being known about/discovered by Sauron. They were not mentioned at all in the Silmariliion, for that reason. No one, including themselves, knows where they came from.

06-03-2003, 02:34 PM	#1
Susan Delgado The Perished Flame Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: behind my eyes Posts: 1,096	Nobody knows where Hobbits come from. Tolkien deliberately left them a mystery to us as well as the other people of Middle-earth to facilitate Frodo's not being known about/discovered by Sauron. They were not mentioned at all in the Silmariliion, for that reason. No one, including themselves, knows where they came from. __________________ "Man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all 'til we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?"