Hobbit

Sauron wants every hobbit to fear him.

Homo floresiensis, nicknamed the Hobbit, stood at around 1.1 metres.

A lot of the games started and originated from people reading ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of The Rings’ series and wanting to be able to go out and relive that in real life.

In Grades 6 and 7 on Lulu Island, I adored Tolkien's fantasy books. When snowy winter came, the canals by the streets near my school were frozen into ice. I ventured to walk on the ice, and often it cracked under my running shoes. There was cold water underneath. I imagined that my exploration was like living in Tolkien's Middle-earth. I was like a Hobbit or an Elf.

The Misty Mountains are no place for a hobbit.

It was his thirty-third birthday and already he had […] a little round tummy like a hobbit

Although partial remains of other Hobbits have surfaced at the same site, they say it could have been an isolated colony of inbred people who shared the same genetic abnormalities.

And in the island regions of southeast Asia, where the descendants of erectus, and the Hobbit, and any similar relict populations lived, climate changes would have greatly disrupted connections between regions and populations, as sea levels rose and fell by 100 metres or more.

The discovery of the Hobbit skeleton in Liang Bua cave in 2003 was an instant sensation. But what it said about human evolution was less clear. Discoverer Mike Morwood proposed that it was a shrunken Homo erectus, the same species that eventually evolved to become us; others suggested the Hobbits were descended from smaller, more primitive early humans such as Homo habilis or Australopithecus.

The hobbit became extinct 50,000 years ago, about the time the first humans arrived on Flores, but the Pacific rat lived on.