Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-98.184.77.53-20150314150739/@comment-27723099-20150321110638

Thorin Stonehelm wrote: no they aren't at best they are a dwarf human hybrid, but they are more likely a completely different race. some hobbits are men in the sense that they are male though if that is what you mean Hobbits derive from humans (not to say men). It's completely impossible that they are an own race, as the first occurences were in the third age and it's very unlikely that new races were created in the third age. Hobbits have more human than dwarven characteristics, though it's not impossible that dwarves were part of their ancestors.