Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-25954624-20150217215246/@comment-26116279-20150222204040

they could be an entirely new race that was made by the music of the ainur and was in the Valar's vision of the world but they were not noticed by any of the valar. Because it did say in the silmarillion that in every age something new would appear in the world that would surprise even the valar. The hobbits could have been that new thing for the 3rd age