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Hobbits
The true origin of the hobbits is not known, nonetheless they are of mortal race and certainly related to the race of men since they are only smaller in stature.
At first they were a widespread people mainly living on the western banks of Anduin between the Misty Mountains and Greenwood the Great (later to be known as
Mirkwood).
The only account of hobbits living in this region is given by Gollum, being himself of hobbit race of the family of the Stoors by the name of Sméagol.
During the third age the hobbits moved to the north-west of Middle-Earth and founded the land of the Shire, gifted to them by king Argeleb II of Arthedain.
The Shire was founded by the two hobbits Marcho and Blanco from Bree in the year 1601 of the Third Age.
Much account of the hobbits is given in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (e.g. the use of pipe-weed) but no clear account can be found from where they originated.
Hobbit's have the ability to move nearly silent and like to be among themselves; that's why there is not much account of Hobbit's in the general lore.
Tolkien wrote in 1955 in a letter to W.H. Auden (letter No 163 in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien):
"On a blank leaf I scrawled: 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' I did not and do not know why."
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