The Origin and Destination of Hobbits.

[K8 Fairy Princess]

I think it was the second one.. they werent an branch of man... an evolution, or divolution if you like.. because they had quite distinctively different traits, not just physical ones....

MIND you their love of beer and food... might mean they were evolved of potato couches

But organisms don't just evolve physically - they evolve behaviourally aswell. I mean, humans and monkeys are behaviourally very different, but humans have evolved from monkeys.

And we share common ancestors with elephants, birds, crocodiles, fish etc if you go back far enough.

If you think about it in comparison to these examples, hobbits and men are very close to each other in evolutionary terms. Only a couple of genes involved, not the thousands involved in other evolutions.

The only problem that I can really see with the theory of evolution, as mith said, is the timescale involved.

[Theo]

 Who (if indeed) we evolved from is opinion, not scientific fact..  But I digress, it's not really relevant..

  As far as the hobbits' origins, my handbook says they were created in the First Age (doesn't say by who) and went "largely unnoticed by other races until well into the Third Age"..  And as most have said, they were closely related to Men though not descended from them..

  My personal belief is that their beginnings aren't really all that relevant, though it does make for interesting conversation..

  I am currently looking up what is said of them in the LotR, but for now have nothing else to add..  Perhaps I'll come back later....


  I couldn't really find anything new (surprise, surprise)..  

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