Citations:hobbit

Fictional Beings

 * 2008, Tom Holt, Falling Sideways, Orbit books, ISBN 1-84149-110-1, p. 3:
 * It was his thirty-third birthday and already he had a little round tummy like a hobbit

Homo floresiensis

 * 2007 September 20, Christopher Joyce, “Case Grows for ‘Hobbit’ as Human Ancestor”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio:
 * 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.
 * 2011,, The Origin of Our Species, Penguin 2012, p. 215:
 * 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.

Other
(Unusual pre-Tolkien usage)