I recall there are creation myths for Dwarves, Elves and Men (as well as other sentient species) in Tolkien’s mythos, but I do not recall a creation tale about the Hobbits. Is there one? Is the topic addressed?
-FrL-
when a mummy hobbit and a daddy hobbit love each other very much, and have eaten 3 breakfasts…
Good question. I look forward to reading someone’s serious answer.
Other hobbits doing the sex?
Serious answer: the Hobbits are basically an offshoot species from Men. They came from the area between the Misty Mountains and Mirkwood, and nobody really knows exactly how they’re related to Men, and… that’s about it, as far as I know.
I think they are just a subset of men, and not truly a different race.
Tiny little storks bring them.
What DJ said. They’re of the 2nd born, just like the Edain, the Haradrim, the Rhunions, etc.
[sub]Rhunions?[/sub]
I bow to Qadop’s expertise, but it’s still rather confusing, isn’t it?
Hobbits are the Pygmies of Middle-Earth.
Okay, I give, what is a Rhunion? You stumped me on this one.
I believe the Drúedain or Woses are another offshoot. (Ghan-Buri-Ghan)
Worthwhile note on the Hobbits from the prologue.
Jim
The inhabitants of Rhun, I’d imagine.
Here I thought they might be called Dorwinions as a subset of the Easterlings.
I am pretty sure there were no Rhunions.
Jim
Rhun is the Sindarin word for east.
And it was a pun on my part. 
No, Hobbits live in holes.
Tiny little gophers bring them.
Um, on a more serious note, is there anything canonical about the origin of the halflings? I mean, it certainly makes sense that they are simply men who are small, but there are some differences, such as the hairy, leathery feet. I’ve always assumed that the fact the Professor never cobbled up a specific creation myth for them meant they were already covered by the creation of mortal men, but you know the canon much better than I do any more… :eek:
They’re what Scooby Doo likes to put on his sandwiches. He also likes rettuce and rustard.
There little more definitive than the prologue of the LotR and some language notes in the appendix. They are men, just very short, furry footed men. Tolkien strongly hinted that there is still a few among us, or at least among the English.
Take that as the LotR starts off still as a faerie story like the Hobbit as opposed to the epic it becomes by the time it leaves Bree. In the first few chapters we have the thoughts of a passing fox, randomly encountered elves, black riders barely fierce enough to scare an old hobbit and later some dogs, Tom Bombadil and of course Frodo’s long version of “The Man in the Moon”. It becomes much more serious in tone later.
Qadgop the Mercotan: ok.
Miller: cute, very cute.
Although Treebeard seemed to consider them a new and different race, as he found a way to include them in the looooooooooooong Entish poem that dealt with all of the peoples of Middle-Earth, including Men, Elves, Orcs, trolls, etc.
So did the witches in Macbeth encounter a “rump-fed Rhunion”, and Willy Shakespeare just didn’t spell it right? I always wiondered what a “Runyon” was.
Yeah, but he didn’t even know where the female gender of his race had gone off to.
Is that like Funions?
Or the makings of a sammich–ya got yer Edain (Edam), yer Ham (Haradrim) and yer Rhunions…
I’ll go away now. 
Seriously, hobbits really come from an Indonesian island named Flores… which is why the female hobbits all have flower names.
As to a few Hobbits still being around–I believe I dated some in college: short men with toe hair.